Reddit says First Amendment rights protect it from having to disclose users' info.
  • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago
    “Judge, they looked at this publicly accessible image” is hardly evidence

    Sometimes you don’t have to win a court case legally, to win a court case. Just the harassment of the lawsuit is enough.

    That’s not a lawsuit they would even attempt, as it would get immediately thrown out.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      That’s not a lawsuit they would even attempt, as it would get immediately thrown out.

      People use the threat of lawsuit as an intimidation tactic all the time.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
        22·
        10 months ago

        So they would send random DMs with pictures, to threaten lawsuits they couldn’t enforce, to achieve what exactly?

        • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          10 months ago

          So they would send random DMs with pictures, to threaten lawsuits they couldn’t enforce, to achieve what exactly?

          They wouldn’t have to send random DM’s if they got the IP addresses more directly, as the article describes.

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            The comment I originally replied to:

            They would just have to start DMing us meme images hosted on a server they control, and they’d get a list of IPs. All we’d have to do is look.