Chilling Dissent: The Just-Us Dept Fights DreamHost for Trump Protest site disruptj20.org Info

Razer g2s at riseup.net
Wed Aug 16 09:17:34 PDT 2017


Lawfare. Links on-site:

>
> The Justice Department is fighting for information on all of the
> visitors to the website disruptj20.org, as well as log files on when
> and from where the visitors logged onto the site, what they looked at,
> and emails related to the site. The site at the center of the storm
> bills itself as a platform connecting Trump protesters and
> "support[ing] the massive and spontaneous eruption of resistance
> across the United States that’s happened since the election."
>
> At the New York Times, Charlie Savage reports that federal
> investigators have issued a search warrant to the internet hosting
> company DreamHost, which is now challenging the warrant as
> unconstitutionally broad—complying with it would allegedly require
> handing over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses and the information,
> emails and photos of thousands of users. Also see the Washington Post
> story last night from Ellen Nakashima.
>
> Dreamhost announced the fight yesterday in a blog post entitled "We
> Fight for the Users." Here are the key documents: the search warrant;
> the Justice Department's motion to show cause; and DreamHost LLC's
> third-party response in opposition to the Department's motion.
>
> We'll be summarizing the issues in greater detail soon.

https://lawfareblog.com/justice-department-fights-web-hosting-company-trump-protester-information



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