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Justice Department Demands 1.3 Million IP Addresses Related To Anti-Trump Website (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: In a blog post today, online web hosting provider DreamHost disclosed that it has been involved in a months-long legal battle with the Justice Department over records on visitors to an anti-Trump website. The dispute focuses on a Justice Department demand for information on data related to disruptj20.org, which describes itself as a group of activists "building the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning widespread direct actions to make that happen." DreamHost is taking issue with a warrant issued by the department for "all files" related to the website, which DreamHost says would compel them to turn over electronic data like visitor logs. That would include IP addresses and other information that could be used to identify anyone who visited the site. "The request from the DOJ demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses -- in addition to contact information, email content, and photos of thousands of people -- in an effort to determine who simply visited the website," the company said in its blog post. The warrant, DreamHost argues, would also require it to hand over any communications that are even tangentially related to the website.
"In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website," the company said in a legal filing arguing against the warrant. A hearing on the situation is set for Friday in Washington, DC Superior Court.
"In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website," the company said in a legal filing arguing against the warrant. A hearing on the situation is set for Friday in Washington, DC Superior Court.
I think you mean hate speech is legal in the US. Organizing protests, and objecting are also legal. Using a website however to plan a riot or commit any crime? That's illegal, and that's why they want the info.
Om, nomnomnom...
And Obama outright asked the people to turn in names of people they knew who weren't on board with Obamacare. In addition his IRS attacked individual citizens based on their political affiliations
Things that never happened for $200, Alex. Stop with the #fakenews.
Conflating people who show up for peaceful protest and people who are attracted to those protests to riot isn't illegal, but it is stupid.
Yes, it's not like Obama ever used the legal system and other Federal agencies, departments, etc in even more blatantly unconstitutional and illegal ways to attack his & the Progressive's perceived political/ideological enemies...oh, wait...
If he did, why didn't the Republican Congress ever manage to impeach him over it? Why didn't they even investigate any of these alleged (though unidentified) actions? All we got was phony complaints about a report on right-wing extremism, a failed investigation into the IRS that found nothing and the rampant Birtherism. Oh, and a pointless lawsuit over the exchanges.
I suppose you could complain about being naive, but that's small potatoes compared to real problems in the prior administration.
You dumbasses were cheering Obama & the Feds on while he and they abused government & presidential powers to attack conservatives, Republicans, and anyone else who criticized the administration or DNC and never gave a thought to how a Republican POTUS and administration might use those same expanded powers, but now that the shoe is on the other foot, suddenly there's a problem.
Actually, it's you who is the dumbass, who cheered on fraudulent accusations about Obama abusing the government and attacking conservatives, Republicans, and anyone else you could identify, and spent 8 years screaming over the Affordable Care Act, denouncing the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (that Bush started under false pretenses), and never gave a thought to what would actually constitute governance if the shoe ever got on the other food.
Now it's you, Strat, who has the problem, because you're still stuck on railing over Obama, and can't change your tune, for some reason, perhaps a blind partisan bias, even as Trumpcare is tried to force through without public discourse, even as Trump's reckless Muslim Ban strands people in airports, even as Trump's jackbooted goons kickdown doors of anybody who opposes him, even as Trump buddies up with his pal Putin, even as Trump fails to even give a token nod to opposing bigotry and racism by the White Nationalist Supremacists who he is conspicuously told voted him into office.
What will you do...Oh wait, you'll double down and repeat your errors. Here's a clue, Blue, you need to deal with the man in the Oval Office, every pointless recrimination you make about Obama might as well be met with your own response to critiques about Bush when Obama was in office.
And what's missing from your post? That of those 230 people arrested some were journalists, lawyers, and medics, not protesters. DC police basically cordoned off areas and indiscriminately arrested everyone there. Which you seem to happily leave out.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil