"We Fight for the Users," 14 August 2017

For the past several months, DreamHost has been working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process... At the center of the requests is disruptj20.org, a website that organized participants of political protests against the current United States administration... [T]he 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 [amongst others] 1.3 million visitor IP addresses...in an effort to determine who simply visited the website... 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. That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind. This is, in our opinion, a strong example of investigatory overreach and a clear abuse of government authority.

As we do in all such cases where the improper collection of data is concerned, we challenged the Department of Justice on its warrant and attempted to quash its demands for this information through reason, logic, and legal process. Instead of responding to our inquiries regarding the overbreadth of the warrant, the DOJ filed a motion [link to document provided on website] in the Washington, D.C. Superior Court, asking for an order to compel DreamHost to produce the records...