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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:04 AM Aug 2017

Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site

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.

"That information could be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and express political speech protected under the Constitution's First Amendment," DreamHost wrote in the blog post on Monday. "That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone's mind."

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

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Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site (Original Post) UCmeNdc Aug 2017 OP
That could soon be us here at DU. We have to fight these nazis brush Aug 2017 #1
So Will Justice Prosecute The 1.3 Million Or Punish Them In Some Way. TheMastersNemesis Aug 2017 #2
no AlexSFCA Aug 2017 #3

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
3. no
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:21 AM
Aug 2017

they will leak the info to alt right so the activists will get harassed online and offline. Enough to deter many from being activists.

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