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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @06:39PM (5 children)
These systems were the best western civilisation could muster at the time. Just as democratic liberalism (a hybrid of both classic and social) is the best we can do now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @07:17PM (4 children)
that's the point of the left you idiot, that's not the best we can do!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:04PM (3 children)
Prove it - show me a single socialist country where the poor have a better standard of living.
(Score: 2) by UncleSlacky on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:16PM (1 child)
There are no socialist countries. There are social democracies (e.g. the Scandinavian ones) where the poor are certainly better off than in the US, but these are still essentially capitalist economies with a few sops to leftish ideas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:44PM
Partially correct answer, social liberals understand there's no wealth to redistribute without the mechanisms of wealth creation. This is what I was alluding to with my earlier comment. There are socialist countries, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela for a start. Spare us the "not real socialism" shtick because the same thing happens every time socialism is tried.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:56PM
You could compare Cuba and Haiti.