DOJ demands Facebook information from "anti-administration activists"
By Jessica Schneider, CNN
Updated 10:11 PM EDT, Thu September 28, 2017
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/09/28/politics/facebook-anti-administration-activists/index.html
(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."
Facebook has not responded to a request for comment about whether it has, or plans to, comply with the search warrants.
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not discern.
I think it's smarter to consider them the citizens they are and not empower the kind of thinking that considers ALL OF US mindless masses, to be used or discarded as needed. Way too much of that going on in and behind our governments.
I haven't spoken a nice word about this misAdministration or the occupant of the Oval Office yet.
support anything they do, but large numbers of conservatives are afraid of authoritarian government.
I went to check out disruptj20, see if I wanted to support some way, but these aren't my type of activists. Hillary went to the inauguration to support our incredibly precious tradition of peaceful transfer of government, not to disrupt it.
The actions of the large numbers who conspicuously stayed away are also not just more my style but their is the rejection that cut to the bone. Rump's still burning white-hot over that, with no one to sic the JD on. 
Anyway, the ACLU and other protectors of our constitutional rights are on it.
