The Justice Department wants to know who’s visiting this anti-Trump
website. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks,
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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 U.S. attorney's office declined to comment but provided the
filings related to the case.
The company is currently challenging the request. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in Washington.”
Read more here: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346544-dreamhost-claims-doj-requesting-info-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website
Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian
Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian
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