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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSessions' DOJ demands that Web Host provide all info on owner and visitors to "anti-Trump" site
For whatever it's worth, DreamHost is my Web Host...I have used them since 2000.Feds demand information on visitors to anti-Trump website
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/feds-demand-information-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website/
At the center of the conflict is disruptj20.org, a website run by a group of activists who were attempting to build the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning widespread direct actions to make that happen.
The U.S. Justice Department, currently headed by Attorney General Sessions, has demanded DreamHostthe company currently hosting disruptj20.orgto provide all information available about the website, its owner and its visitors.
On July 12, a search warrant was issued by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that required DreamHost disclose a significant amount of information that would be stored on the companys servers. The warrant included a request for all files associated with the site, email accounts the contents of those accounts associated with the site and contact and billing information of the person who registered the site.
The warrant also demanded DreamHost disclose any information it had about people who simply visited the website. The Justice Department asked for the IP addresses of visitors, which would generally provides information about a visitors location and other potentially identifiable information, as well as contact information of people who used the site.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/feds-demand-information-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website/
At the center of the conflict is disruptj20.org, a website run by a group of activists who were attempting to build the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning widespread direct actions to make that happen.
The U.S. Justice Department, currently headed by Attorney General Sessions, has demanded DreamHostthe company currently hosting disruptj20.orgto provide all information available about the website, its owner and its visitors.
On July 12, a search warrant was issued by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that required DreamHost disclose a significant amount of information that would be stored on the companys servers. The warrant included a request for all files associated with the site, email accounts the contents of those accounts associated with the site and contact and billing information of the person who registered the site.
The warrant also demanded DreamHost disclose any information it had about people who simply visited the website. The Justice Department asked for the IP addresses of visitors, which would generally provides information about a visitors location and other potentially identifiable information, as well as contact information of people who used the site.
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Sessions' DOJ demands that Web Host provide all info on owner and visitors to "anti-Trump" site (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2017
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hlthe2b
(102,284 posts)1. is this from the original the Hill article or elsewhere...link? on edit... thanks
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)2. OOOPS...Raw Story, edited to add link, thanks. n/t
underpants
(182,826 posts)3. Ok. That's frightening
F that little racist elf
PdxSean
(574 posts)4. It's sad that a judge would sign such a warrant.
That warrant is so broad it makes a mockery of the concept of judicial oversight.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)5. This will be litigated
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