WHAT????? DOJ requesting info on anti trump site visitors.

[pepperbear]

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346544-dreamhost-claims-doj-requesting-info-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website

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Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes goes too far under the Constitution.

DreamHost claimed that the complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government, in addition to contact information, email content and photos of thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.

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[pangaia]

1. Many OPs on this. BUT..the more the better

[FakeNoose]

8. I guess the Feds did the same for all those ultra conservative anti-Obama websites

You think? Nah I don't either.
And they were VILE!

[Reiyuki]

2. Surprised they didn't get a gag order

Most of the big companies facing FISA and antiterror requests get gag orders that prevent them from admitting it ever happened.

[AlexSFCA]

3. scary

I can see how it can scare some of us posting here.

[Maraya1969]

6. They are looking for terrorists. If we have any on DU they should be rounded up too

[rurallib]

4. wonder when they will want names on DU?

seem to be right in line.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

5. Concentration camps await n/m

[panader0]

7. In an earlier post a DUer asked why the DOJ is not

requesting info on Nazi/alt right sites. ??? "Many sides, many sides."
The bias is plain to see.
Oh yeah, fuck Trump.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. EFF is monitoring this DreamHost overreach issue, with an August 18th court date.

In J20 Investigation, DOJ Overreaches Again. And Gets Taken to Court Again.

We’ve already written about problems with the government’s investigation into the J20 protests—a series of demonstrations on January 20, the day of President Trump’s inauguration—which resulted in the arrest of hundreds of protesters.

But prosecutors in DC are still at it. And they’re still using unconstitutional methods to pursue their investigation.

This time they served a search warrant on hosting provider DreamHost that would require the company to turn over essentially all information on a website it hosts, www.disruptj20.org—a site that was dedicated to organizing and planning the protest.

Much more at the jump, including filings.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/j20-investigation-doj-overreaches-again-and-gets-taken-court-again


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[Gothmog]

10. This will be litigated

Link to tweet

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