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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDOJ demands @DreamHost hand over 1.3 million IP addresses of everyone who visited anti-Trump site
For the past several months, DreamHost has been working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process, including a Search Warrant (PDF) seeking information about one of our customers websites.
At the center of the requests is disruptj20.org, a website that organized participants of political protests against the current United States administration. While we have no insight into the affidavit for the search warrant (those records are sealed), the DOJ has recently asked DreamHost to provide all information available to us about this website, its owner, and, more importantly, its visitors.
DreamHost, like many online service providers, is approached by law enforcement regularly to provide information about customers who may be the subject of criminal investigations. These types of requests are not uncommon; our legal department reviews and scrutinizes each request and, when necessary, rejects and challenges vague or faulty orders.
Chris Ghazarian, our General Counsel, has taken issue with this particular search warrant for being a highly untargeted demand that chills free association and the right of free speech afforded by the Constitution.
The request from the DOJ demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses in addition to contact information, email content, and photos of thousands of people in an effort to determine who simply visited the website. (Our customer has also been notified of the pending warrant on the account.)That information could be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and express political speech protected under the Constitutions First Amendment. That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyones mind.
https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/we-fight-for-the-users/
blogslut
(38,016 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)And this:
Instead of responding to our inquiries regarding the overbreadth of the warrant, the DOJ filed a motion (PDF) in the Washington, D.C. Superior Court, asking for an order to compel DreamHost to produce the records.
Weve been working closely with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and their counsel throughout this process. Theyve been nothing but supportive and helpful throughout, and were honored to have them in our corner
The EFF are good people. It makes me wonder if Trump admin is monitoring DU.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)Bladewire
(381 posts)Trump wants to track his enemies just like Putin!
Putin is blocking anonymizer sites so the FSB can track where all Russians go online, just like China, Putin is blocking millions of Russian citizens access to American free speech sites.
Source:
https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/great-firewall-of-china-goes-russia-upcoming-internet-shutdown/#top
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)It began quite a long time ago!
This is what Trump meant by "opening a DOJ investigation" into Charlottesville. He didn't mean (as most assumed) that he would investigate the alt-right/KKK/Nazis... no, he means to investigate "many sides" - or specifically the other side, anti-fa and BLM.
Bladewire
(381 posts)We will not be divided
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)they will harass the hell out of us with doj bystanding. Scary times ahead. War on liberalism
drray23
(7,637 posts)i dont think its going to fly in court.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)spanone
(135,874 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Link to tweet
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