Forbes: What The Fight Between DreamHost And The DOJ Means For Technology And Freedom

Forbes: What The Fight Between DreamHost And The DOJ Means For Technology And Freedom by Frank Miniter:

Yesterday a D.C. court ordered DreamHost to give the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) data on some of the anti-Trump protestors who created or used the website disruptj20.org.

Federal prosecutors are trying to identify and charge activists who’d acted violently. But to find them, the DOJ demanded that DreamHost, a web-hosting provider and domain-name registrar, give data that could identify the million-plus people who’d used the political-organizing website disruptj20.org.

The DOJ argued in a motion to the court that “the website disruptj20.org was used to organize a riot that took place in the District of Columbia on the morning of January 20, 2017…. The Warrant is focused on evidence of the planning, coordination and participation in a criminal act—that is, a premeditated riot. The First Amendment does not protect violent, criminal conduct such as this.”

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