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The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.

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.” 

When contacted, the Justice Department directed The Hill to the U.S. attorney's office in D.C.

The company is currently challenging the request. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in Washington.

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

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KleinGa

Wow wow.

"democracy dies in darkness" - Washington Post's tagline. This has never been more accurate. 

Scary times indeed. 

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DeleteMyAccount

Why don't the get the IPs of Nazis and racists?.... Just go onto any news article on Facebook and you'll find hundreds/thousands.

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MJHolland

every single day, this president and administration does irreparable damage to the institutions of our country 

this is not us 

this makes me sick 

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ItsTommyBitch

:wtf: 

This and all of the Climate Change Denial from the heads of our government is so sickening and scary :air: 

We tried to warn you against voting for a demagogue :deadbanana: 

私自身もこの世の中も誰もかれもが, どんなに華やかな人生でも, どんなに悲惨な人生でも, いつかは変貌し, 破壊され、消滅してしまう. すべてがもともとこの世に存在しない一瞬の幻想なのだから
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LordEnigma
2 minutes ago, MJHolland said:

every single day, this president and administration does irreparable damage to the institutions of our country 

this is not us 

this makes me sick 

This was QUITE apparent during his run for presidency...

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13VictorC

The worst part is that every broken system becomes normal.

Until the day we forget the freedom that vanished amidst the confusion.

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Morphine Prince

Trump's dictator tendencies come out when he's faced with criticism. 

Despicable man. 

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gabeoz
55 minutes ago, ZacharyMark said:

Why don't the get the IPs of Nazis and racists?.... Just go onto any news article on Facebook and you'll find hundreds/thousands.

Because that's where a large part of his base comes from. :reductive:

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gabeoz
19 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Trump's dictator tendencies have come out

Deplorable "man".

Fixed 

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ShockPop

America right now is like a prequel to the purge... Which is like a prequel to the hunger games.

Wow.

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