ICE knows you blocked them on Bluesky

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts:

Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

The timing of all this doesn’t look great for Bluesky and Mike Masnic. Bluesky, the Public Good Corporation, launches “Find Your Friends” in December 2025.

Then, ICE joins Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform, a month later. Bluesky verifies ICE, which triggers a mass-blocking by Bluesky members. ICE is now the third most blocked account on Bluesky.

DHS now has a public list of everyone who blocked ICE. Not to mention the firehose of everyone’s activity data. But don’t worry, DHS super duper promises it won’t collect the personal information of Bluesky’s users in a special Bluesky-specific privacy policy.

Why is DHS going out of its way to reassure Bluesky’s user-base by carving out a special privacy policy? What does ICE give a shit about Bluesky’s public relations?

And Bluesky’s response? Nothing. Because you can’t be accountable for people’s private data if you kill the concept of privacy.