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A month ago, the Department of Justice served a warrant (PDF) to Dreamhost regarding one of its clients. This is routine for law enforcement to make such requests, the website hosting service said in a blog post -- except the page in question, disruptj20.org, had helped organize protests of Trump's inauguration. And the DOJ is demanding personal info and 1.3 million IP addresses of visitors to the site.
[...] After questioning the warrant's extreme volume of info requested, the DOJ fired back with a motion (PDF) asking the DC Superior Court to compel the host to comply. Dreamhost's counsel filed legal arguments in opposition (PDF), and will attend a court hearing about the matter in Washington, DC on August 18th.
It's not the first time authorities have tried to pry information from internet companies on users that attended anti-Trump protests.
Source: Engadget
Additional Coverage at The Guardian and DreamHost
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 15 2017, @03:09PM (2 children)
Actually, it's more complicated than that. There is economic right and economic left. There is also social right and social left.
Economic right starts with "You earned every penny you have, so you should be able to keep it." Economic left starts with "When people are so poor they can't keep themselves alive, we should give them money/stuff to fix that problem." The reason they're diametrically opposed is that the economic left needs to get the stuff they give to poor people from somebody who already has it, which violates the principle of the economic right.
Social right starts with "Some people are better than others, and should have more privileges in society." Social left starts with "Some people through no fault of their own are at a disadvantage, and we should change things so that they no longer are." These are obviously diametrically opposed, because they have opposite answers to the question of why some people are poor, more likely to be convicted of a crime, and so forth: the social right thinks it's because they're stupid and lazy and make poor decisions, the social left thinks it's because there are people and institutions trying to keep them on the bottom rung.
The modern Republican Party is very obviously economic right and tends towards social right. The modern Democratic Party is very obviously social left and is really conflicted between economic left and economic neutral. Fascism is basically social right mixed with economic left, noticeably making the "some people are better than others" be defined as groups of people rather than individuals. Libertarians tend towards economic right (although unlike fascists evaluating the "some people" on an individual basis) and social neutral. Socialists are all about economic left but also secondarily social left.
The so-called "national socialists" are fascists, not socialists. Indeed, they consistently portray themselves as fighting against socialism.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @04:29PM
That's one interpretation. Another interpretation:
Social right starts with "Some people work hard to overcome their disadvantages, and they should reap the rewards for their work." Social left starts with "Some people see their disadvantages as a reason to not work hard, and the rest of us should do their work instead."
Neither interpretation is entirely correct or incorrect, of course, but multiple perspectives are necessary to aid in a true, non-echo-chamber understanding. (If a person finds one of these interpretations appealing but the other repulsive, that may be a symptom of echo chamber thinking.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @06:31PM
Really? I mean sure, murdering someone is one way to end their disadvantage. [theguardian.com]
Fascism is socialism [econlib.org] and socialism is a murderous evil.