Web-Hosting Service WebDreamHost Fights U.S. Dept. of Justice Request For 1.3 Million IP Addresses of Disruptj20 Website Visitors

From VentureBeat:

Webhosting service DreamHost has said that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested information on everyone who visited DisruptJ20.org, a website that was set up to organize political protests against the current U.S. administration.
The DisruptJ20.org domain, a reference to the president’s inauguration on January 20, was actually registered on DreamHost last October, a few weeks before the U.S. presidential election took place. But it launched to the public on November 11, a few days after Trump emerged as victor. The website was subsequently used as a conduit for organizing protests around Trump’s inauguration — some peaceful, some not so.
At any rate, DreamHost said that is has been “working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process” for the past “several months” and that the company received a search warrant requesting myriad details pertaining to DistrupJ20.org in July.

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See Also: Blog Post from Dreamhost ||| Direct to Search Warrant ||| DOJ Filed a Motion ||| Dreamhost Reply
See Also: A Closer Look at DOJ’s Warrant to Collect Website Records (via Washington Post)
See Also: i2Coalition Releases Statement on DreamHost Warrant
See Also: Can the U.S. Government Seize an Anti-Trump Website’s Visitor Logs? (via The Atlantic)

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