Explain the dodgy bit here? These are all public/open forums. Open source intelligence work[1] is... routine and normal? What's the remedy you want to see?

Explain the dodgy bit here? These are all public/open forums. Open source intelligence work[1] is... routine and normal? What's the remedy you want to see? The government isn't allowed to read reddit or join discord forums? The government isn't allowed to hire people to read reddit or join discord forums? The headline is doing a lot of lifting with "spies" and "infiltrate", but as I read the article... quite frankly everything described is not only routine, and legal, it's literally protected by the first amendment. [1] It's a term of art. Obviously not the same thing as open source software.