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DC Judge Approves Government Warrant For Data From Anti-Trump Website (reuters.com)
According to Reuters, a D.C. Superior Court judge on Thursday approved a government warrant seeking data from an anti-Trump website related to Inauguration Day protests, but he added protections to safeguard "innocent users." From the report: Chief Judge Robert Morin said DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web-hosting company, must turn over data about visitors to the website disruptj20.org, which is a home to political activists who organized protests at the time of Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president in January. Morin, who will oversee review of the data, said the government must explain what protocols it will use to make sure prosecutors do not seize the data of "innocent users." Morin said at a hearing on Thursday that he recognized the tension between free speech rights and law enforcement's need to search digital records for evidence. He said he added safeguards to his order granting the government's request for information in an effort to balance those two concerns. Besides reviewing the prosecutors' privacy protocols, Morin also shortened the time frame for records to those generated from October to Inauguration Day and instructed the prosecutors to explain why anything they want to seize is germane to the investigation.
I just can't believe I was tricked into reading another solar eclipse article.
Here is the link to the real story:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-dreamhost-idUSKCN1B41ZC
Liberals didn't complain when Obama Administration lied about tapping data of every cell phone, or when it was caught spying on Americans (multiple times) for political gain.
Sorry, but Libertarians are the ONLY ones calling out the hypocrisy of both the D and R parties, who use government to oppress their opponents.
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"Am I the only one following that link and landing on a Reuters page about the eclipse?"
That's just Goatse.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Either think twice about posting it, or learn how to protect your identity online. You can use throw away email addresses, fake names, a good vpn service that doesn't log, and a browser setup not to leak so much information about you.
Also, consider the privacy policy of the service(s) you are posting on. Do they keep logs? If so, for how long? Logged IP addresses don't need to be kept for much longer than 30 days. That's more than enough time to react to some form of abuse of the platform. If the logs of IP's aren't there, the government can't ask for them. While taking issue with a government for asking for this data makes sense, it also makes sense to apply pressure to these services to stop enabling government fishing expeditions by cleaning up their logs regularly. Keeping logs of IP's for long periods of time are never in the interest of the users... means the service either intends to sell or misuse the data, or they are just too lazy to care about their customer's privacy.
Learn to navigate the internet safely, or others will use it to harm you.
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Government is really on a hell of a fishing expedition here.
I highly doubt there's any planning of violence/vandalism on the site. That sort of stuff sounds like spur of the moment stuff. Do they really think protesters, in general, go out with malicious intent?
Fishy fishing expedition is fishy.
There are 200+ people charged and at least 1 felony conviction for activities during the inauguration; this all stems from those investigations.
The DoJ contends that while most people using the site were legitimate protestors or just people wondering what type of anti-Trump activities were planned a small group of people used the site to organize premeditated riots.
These types of warrants are requested and granted all the time and the only thing making this come back into the headlines is the sheer number of records Dreamhost retained. DoJ investigators have already stated they were not expecting that many records from their initial request. In most cases if the numbers are low the warrant is served and replied to with little fuss but when over a million users information is at stake when admittedly the number of actual suspects is a fraction of a percent of those then Dreamhost felt they needed to push back.
So basically we're just at the stage where the DoJ has to set forward the criteria they want to search for to try and identify the actual suspects and the judge granting the warrant wants to ensure it's not too broad as to get too many innocent users. It's all pretty sop.
Of course that's just my opinion...... you could be wrong!
But you have to admit, many (most) liberals didn't really care because it was against Republicans
You are confused. Nobody has to admit that. You are the one making the claim, so you have to prove it.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Judge Robert Morin was appointed to the court by President Clinton, and moved to the Chief Judge position by President Obama. I think it's safe to say he's not a "GOP lackey"...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Okay. Clapper it is then.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
Keep holding the morons 'feet to the fire' is all any of us can do. Part of that is not accepting bullshit at face value from any of the Republicrats.
ACA was passed entirely by the Ds, they own it. Trump can just let it fail, as constructed and intended. That's what will move replacement forward in something like a bipartisan way, eventually, once the situation becomes truly fucked. I hope they just punt it down to the states, but doubt they have the wisdom.
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Hey, you have to right to say most anything you want but when you start conspiring to start riots, that's where your rights end.
The ACA was passed by the Ds _broken_. On the assumption they would be in charge when the shit hit the fan.
Now it sucks to be them, it's going to fail when they have no power, but they still own the mess. Twisting in the wind. 18% got a shitty insurance plan, but 82% had their insurance made _much_ worse.
The Ds own it, forever. The Rs will stretch the pain, they can't lose on this.
My hope remains that Trump triggers both sides to dump the MAD dirt they have on the other. Then we get two new parties.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
before ACA, my insurance was always going up. always. never once did it level off or go down.
ACA happened. they can no longer deny people because of 'pre-conditions' (whatever the hell that really means).
but the prices are still going up.
guess what, rent goes up. cost of food goes up. my salary? well, not so much. the rich want to keep paying us as little as possible, of course.
but to blame ACA for health insurance costs is beyond stupid. no matter WHAT happens, the rich will seize any chance to rob us all blind.
but again, at least they can't cancel us because of pre-conditions. what was a huge win. if you don't understand, maybe you will once you get to a certain age and have lost your 100% perfect health, as we ALL do, over time!
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Liberals didn't complain when Obama Administration lied about tapping data of every cell phone
Yeah they did.
I know you hate Liberals and therefore assume that everything you disapprove of must be liked by liberals. That however doesn't make it true.
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Honestly, only way I can see any reasonable person be upset over this is if they don't know about the riots that took place under Trump's inauguration, that this site was used to organize the demonstrations and that the information request is limited to rioting-related posts.
I can understand that people are frustrated with Trump and his election as president, but that doesn't give anyone the right to ignore the rule of law and go around destroying both public and private property. Even the "we're fighting white supremacy" excuse some of these people give falls flat on it's face when you remember that the rioters torched a limo taxi owned by a muslim immigrant who used that limo taxi to make a living for himself.
Seriously, doing something on the internet does not entitle you to protection from government information requests and if you believe that, then you probably deserve all the grief you get from being convicted of the illegal activity you thought you could get away with.
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your riots are my, "civil disobedience"
The definition, well one definition anyway, of "civil disobedience" is: the refusal to comply with certain laws considered unjust, as a peaceful form of political protest.
And that of a "riot": a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd
So, pretty much by definition, a riot is not a form of civil disobedience.
You can pretend to hold the moral high ground all you like, you can pretend that all you're doing is protesting an unjust system, an unfit president, whatever, but in reality we all know you're being a violent thug, and you deserve no hiding place from the consequences of your violent actions.
only because DH objected. The point of my comment was that had they not objected there was an issue with the initial request that could have been abused.
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