BREAKING: ICE to Monitor Americans' Social Media

[EarlG]

9. I've never considered DU to be "social media"

I'm not going to sugarcoat the appalling nature of what ICE is doing, but I will say that it is probably much less likely that they can scrape useful information from an old-school site like DU, where people are not required to give their real names, and can use a throwaway email address to create an account (and in any event, email addresses used to register an account on DU are never made public).

While there is a space in your DU profile to include information about yourself if you want, we've never encouraged people to provide anything that they don't feel comfortable sharing -- unlike the major social media services which basically beg you to give them as much information about yourself as they can possibly get a hold of. So the kind of massive information dragnet they're talking about in the OP is probably focused more on services like X, Facebook, Instagram, etc. where it is incredibly easy to collect all kinds of demographic information and stitch it together to create profiles on people.