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Department of Justice Demands Facebook Information From 'Anti-Administration Activists' (cnn.com)

PopeRatzo shares a report from CNN: Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN. The warrants specifically target the accounts of three Facebook users who are described by their attorneys as "anti-administration activists who have spoken out at organized events, and who are generally very critical of this administration's policies." One of those users, Emmelia Talarico, operated the disruptj20 page where Inauguration Day protests were organized and discussed; the page was visited by an estimated 6,000 users whose identities the government would have access to if Facebook hands over the information sought in the search warrants. In court filings, Talarico says if her account information was given to the government, officials would have access to her "personal passwords, security questions and answers, and credit card information," plus "the private lists of invitees and attendees to multiple political events sponsored by the page."

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  1. Hypocrisy by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: -1, Troll

    I try not to get too political. However, I can't help but notice how it's now "your civic duty" to "resist" and generally disparage the government. Prior to January 20, 2017, that meant you were a racist deplorable scumbag. Journalists were being tossed in the pokey, phones were being tapped to find "leakers", etc. Apparently, now that's all just police state tactics.

    1. Re:Hypocrisy by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 1, Troll

      Look up purity ponies. Plenty idiots on the left think Obama/Clinton are as bad as Trump.

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  2. They mean ANTIFA Traitors... by Zurkeyon3733 · · Score: -1, Troll

    They want names of the Fascist Anti-Fascists... Who can't seem to stop committing VIOLENCE to prevent peoples SPEECH... Liberals and millennials are fucking lazy TRASH. You have fought no wars, shed no blood, and sacrificed NOTHING for this nation. Therefore, you deserve NOTHING!

    1. Re:They mean ANTIFA Traitors... by Zurkeyon3733 · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yes Armchair warrior... I said something YOU don't like... Come kill me. While proving MY point. LMMFAO!

  3. Good by wjcofkc · · Score: -1, Troll

    The fake news article this links to is covering up the fact that we are talking about Antifa.

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  4. Re:Not right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FUCK. YOU.

    Antifa has gained the distinction of being labeled a 'domestic terrorist organisation' in a very short time for throwing urnine bombs and punching a few Nazis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmNz2jGzsDA

    You are choosing to be willfully ignorant at this point only because some part of you actually believes that, letting brown shirt thugs run the streets unchecked, will result in an outcome that you can accept. Here's a hint. It won't.

    while the Ku Klux Klan is still not considered worthy of that title even though it has been waging a campaign of lynchings, murder, rape and terrorist bombings for 150 years.

    https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-report-kkk-declining-in-stature-and-significance