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
