U.S. Department of Justice Demands IP Addresses, Other Details on Visitors to Trump Resistance Site

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U.S. Department of Justice Demands IP Addresses, Other Details on Visitors to Trump Resistance Site

By CircleID Reporter
August 15, 2017, 8:23 pm PDT Views: 9,468 Add Comment

The Los Angeles-based hosting company, DreamHost on Monday revealed that for the past several months it has been dealing with a search warrant from the Department of Justice pertaining to a website used to organize protests against President Trump. DreamHost says: “At the center of the requests is disruptj20.org, a website that organized participants of political protests against the current United States administration. While we have no insight into the affidavit for the search warrant (those records are sealed), the DOJ has recently asked DreamHost to provide all information available to us about this website, its owner, and, more importantly, its visitors. ... The request from the DOJ demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses—in addition to contact information, email content, and photos of thousands of people—in an effort to determine who simply visited the website.”

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