Americans woke up to yet another orgy of online gloating after liberal influencers turned routine immigration enforcement footage into entertainment, and even the White House got dragged into the mess for sharing a mocking clip about deportations. That kind of public humiliation of law enforcement and federal agents isn’t just tasteless — it’s corrosive to the rule of law and to the brave men and women doing difficult jobs most Americans don’t want.
One viral TikTok even crossed the line into doxxing when a creator identified and posted the hotel address of ICE agents staying in San Antonio, provoking predictable outrage and real safety concerns. This is not protest — it’s intimidation, and it puts agents and their families at risk for online mobs and violent actors who don’t distinguish between rhetoric and action.
The woke pressure campaign against private companies has taken ugly turns as well, with organizers urging people to weaponize corporate services by booking and canceling rental cars to disrupt ICE operations in Minnesota. Targeting private businesses to interfere with lawful government activity is economic vigilantism dressed up as activism, and it punishes honest workers who have nothing to do with federal enforcement.
Social media clips of an ICE agent slipping on ice and being celebrated by the crowd went viral, showing how quickly decency evaporates when hysteria meets a camera and a keyboard. Laughing at the misfortune of an officer trying to do his job is the same moral rot that leads to ambushes and emboldens those who would physically attack law enforcement.
To make matters worse, a flood of fake and AI-manufactured “ICE raid” videos is circulating, blurring the line between real wrongdoing and staged outrage and fueling a climate of confusion and hatred. Tech platforms that algorithmically amplify sensational lies are not neutral; they’re active participants in political warfare, and they must be held to account for the chaos they enable.
We should be able to criticize government policy, but when criticism morphs into doxxing, harassment, and manufactured hysteria, it becomes a threat to civil society. Conservatives stand for law and order, for due process, and for supporting public servants who face real danger; we reject the mob’s attempt to substitute online virtue-signaling for actual governance.
It’s time for elected leaders, platform executives, and corporate boards to stop pretending this is all just “content” and accept responsibility. Protect the safety of agents and citizens alike, enforce laws against doxxing and threats, and stop rewarding bad-faith creators with viral fame — the future of our country and the safety of communities depend on it.
