The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has formally requested that the IP addresses of 1.3 million people that visited an anti-Trump protest organizing website, disruptj20.org, be handed over – along with their contact information, email addresses and content, and photograph uploads. DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider, has explained in a blog post that the request came through a few months ago, and that they are challenging the request.
The company explain that this “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. That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.” The company explain that this “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. That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.” The DoJ’s request, then, is highly irregular. Such massive online warrants are normally used when it comes to illegal sexual imagery, drug distribution sites, terrorism, or caches of pirated movies. The right to arrange protests is rarely, if ever, investigated in this way.
Credits: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/justice-department-know-identities-million-antitrump-web-users/
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