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https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/08/us-court-orders-dreamhost-to-turn-over-info-on-anti-trump-site/

DreamHost must turn over some information about a website hosted on its platform that was used to plan a protest on President Donald Trump's inauguration day, a DC judge ruled today.

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The US Justice Department, which alleges that the site helped coordinate a riot, initially sought a massive amount of DreamHost data including the IP addresses of the site's approximately 1.3 million visitors. But the Justice Department narrowed the scope of its warrant earlier this week to exclude the IP addresses after DreamHost and civil liberties organisations objected.

However, the Superior Court of DC's Chief Judge Robert E. Morin ruled today that DreamHost still needs to disclose some information about the operators of the site, disruptj20.org. The US government claims that the site was used "to coordinate and to privately communicate among a focused group of people whose intent included planned violence".