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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.
Then you'll be doxxed out of your livelihood or outed by IPs and internet companies like Google and Dreamhost for your wrong think.
Gotta love the hypocrisy of the leftists here - "these Trump people are jackbooted thugs"
No. That would be the leftists and Antifa.
As you see here - if you deplatform Leftists you're evil - if you deplatform anybody with a conservative viewpoint you're a hero.
Be careful of what you're building - you're not going to like the result.
You have the right to free speech and privacy. But if you make your views known publicly, you can't assume you'll somehow magically be immune from the consequences. Want to be a Nazi in your basement, go right ahead. Want to be a Nazi out in the town square, then you have voluntarily surrendered your rights to privacy, and if your friends, family and employer no longer want to be associated with you because you believe the white race is superior and all the Jews and brown skinned people should be chased off, well, that's tough on you.
This meme of "Freedom of speech != freedom from consequences" is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever encountered on this site. It is absolutely rampant, too. Do you really have freedom of speech if you lose your job, your friends, you family over your political beliefs? I trust you would support swathes of people ostracizing somebody who happens to publicly be an atheist, or a commie, or gay, right? No! Of course you wouldn't. And you'd be right to oppose maltreatment of others with unpopular opinions.
"Freedom of speech != freedom from consequences" is a fancy way of saying "the mob should decide what is right and wrong to say." Apply your rule equally to all parties involved, or keep quiet when public opinion shifts against your ideas.