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Oh FFS what now
Someone freedom of information acted hexbear and it's taken a really long time to get removed. I called the poster a snitch repeatedly and made a lot of joke posts surrounding it thst I think are pretty keen. But yeah someone asked the fbi how much they knew about hexbear like that doesn't draw attention and maybe put people in danger. My opsec sucks cause come at me bro. But I feel pretty strongly about someone just essentially emailing the feds to say this site is potentially interesting. I'll take my own risk but I won't compromise others and this is very much doing that. Never contact the fucking fbi requesting info about aledtist forum. They're for sure keeping an eye on it now if they werent before.
We're we doxed at all?
No, we're still as open as any pseudonymous clearnet forum with anonymous read access. ANY malicious actor could do more damage to the site (a banned user for example, or a right wing troll crew) at any time without even exposing themselves to us.
This is not a forum for serious organising of the sort of activity that would draw state/federal/national/transnational cop attention.
But the volcel police are always watching.
No, but it was pretty irresponsible. It's getting publicly available info on what the fbi has on you, but asking in and of itself is just unnecessary and can only do harm and is at best pointless.
It's more of a
"Hey feds! What dirt do you have on hexbear.net, aka chapo.chat?"
"Let us check...nothing. You went through all that effort to contact us for that. Should we have a file on it?"
Hangs up
I can pretty much guarantee that they receive enough frivolous requests that they don't bother to take a deeper look at every one that turns up blank. Even if they did, they're just going to find leftist shit posters that don't organise anything more than the occasional fundraiser and book club. If they care about any of Hexbears users it will be for their irl activities, not their posting.
I thought all the people acting like the feds care about this site were joking.
some folks didn't get the joke I guess
staggeringly reckless thing to do
Some person emailed the FBI about hexbear for a FOIA request
Chances are they were already aware of us, but also wtf who the fuck cares about us that much that they would do that. Our haters have some wild priorities.
It was me. I promise I am no hater of HB. It's an awesome site with great people. I put the request in as a response to a post asking someone to make a FOIA request.. The response then was positive. Last thing I want is to cause site drama. There's a discussion here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5784821
with regards to the "encouragement" thread, people here are always posting under a thousand layers of irony, but talking to or inquiring with the feds for any reason is generally a bad idea, and i don't really care about how minor or fruitless it seems to some. it costs you absolutely nothing to not contact the feds.
It could've been interesting though if they did have something on us. It would've been worth it to know and doesn't really cost us anything that they made the request. People are making these requests all the time, literally anyone can do it. YouTubers, podcasters, journalists, there are so many frivolous requests, it's not that big a deal. We're not all suddenly going to get swatted or get a file because some office stone had to do a ctrl-f in their database for some dumb, niche website. This site is nothing compared to the more public facing organizations that do actual work in the real world.
Yeah the FOIA backlog is absurd. Ken Klippenstein was just complaining about it recently.
I thought it was funny