Justice Department Walks Back Demand For Information On Anti-Trump Website (theverge.com)

After issuing a warrant to DreamHost for "all files" related to an anti-trump website, the Justice Department says it's scaling back a demand for information from hosting service DreamHost. The Verge reports: In a legal filing today, the Justice Department argues that the warrant was proper, but also says DreamHost has since brought up information that was previously "unknown." In light of that, it has offered to carve out information demanded in the warrant, specifically pledging to not request information like HTTP logs tied to IP addresses. The department says it is only looking for information related to criminal activity on the site, and says that "the government is focused on the use of the Website to organize, to plan, and to effect a criminal act -- that is, a riot." Peaceful protestors, the government argues, are not the targets of the warrant. The filing asks the court to proceed with the new, less burdensome request, which, apart from the carved-out sections, still requests "all records or other information, pertaining to the Account, including all files, databases, and database records stored by DreamHost in relation to that Account." It's unclear if DreamHost will continue to fight the new demand.

Comments

While that may be true

[rsilvergun]

the percentage of Americans identifying as and with Jackbooted thugs has been on the upswing.

Re:While that may be true

[AmiMoJo]

When you get people like that at the very top, it normalizes their behaviour and views. That's why Trump's opponents keep saying "this is not normal".

Re: This is fine

[drinkypoo]

Grow up.

Someone who can't tell the difference between Nazis (want to kill all the jews, blacks, etc.) and Antifa (don't want to be killed any more) is not worth talking to.