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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 15 2017, @09:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-a-little-info-please dept.

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

Related: Facebook Appeal


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @06:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @06:31PM (#554364)

    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."

    Really? I mean sure, murdering someone is one way to end their disadvantage. [theguardian.com]

    The so-called "national socialists" are fascists, not socialists. Indeed, they consistently portray themselves as fighting against socialism.

    Fascism is socialism [econlib.org] and socialism is a murderous evil.