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FBI Serves Incredibly Broad Warrant To 8chan, Demanding Info On All Users ...
TechDirt ^ | Jun 19th 2019 | Tim Cushing

Posted on 06/20/2019 8:54:46 AM PDT by Jack Black

Full Title: FBI Serves Incredibly Broad Warrant To 8chan, Demanding Info On All Users Who Responded To A Shooter's Post

Internet hellhole 8chan has been hit with a federal search warrant. The site, created to serve those who felt 4chan's nearly-nonexistent moderation was too restrictive, has been front and center recently due to its hosting of manifestos by mass shooters who apparently frequented the site.

In this case, an investigation into a shooting at a California mosque has led the FBI to the pages of 8chan. Postings at the site -- along with some at Facebook -- have linked the shooter to the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand. According to the affidavit [PDF], the FBI believes the California mosque shooter was "inspired and/or educated" by the New Zealand's shooters manifesto and actions.

The Poway shooter is already in custody, so the value of the information sought here is questionable. While the info may have some value in establishing the shooter's state of mind, as well as his connection to other crimes, the warrant does bear some resemblance to a fishing expedition.

From the affidavit, it appears the feds have no shortage of evidence to use against the shooter:

(Excerpt) Read more at techdirt.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 8chan; fbi; freespeech; internet; tyranny; warrant
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More information at the site, including a link to the actual "Application for Search Warrant".

The article closes with this statement:

However you may feel about 8chan and its denizens (and I hope those feelings are mostly negative), this is not a justifiable demand for information. The FBI wants everything on everyone in that thread, even as it states some of the users it's targeting were appalled by what they were seeing. This makes everyone in the thread a suspect and treats anonymous users of this site as inherently suspicious, no matter what their posts actually say.

I concur.

1 posted on 06/20/2019 8:54:46 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black

Next request info on all facebook users...


2 posted on 06/20/2019 8:58:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: a fool in paradise

They did also serve a warrant on Facebook as part of this investigation, but I don’t believe it was anywhere near as broad.


3 posted on 06/20/2019 8:59:18 AM PDT by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: Jack Black

But I’m told Trump posts there?!


4 posted on 06/20/2019 9:00:22 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: a fool in paradise
Next request info on all facebook users...

Also known as the FBI Agents' Lifetime Employment and Pension Guarantee Act


5 posted on 06/20/2019 9:00:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Jack Black

Read a thread?

GO TO JAIL..!

That’s the LAW..!


6 posted on 06/20/2019 9:00:53 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: a fool in paradise

They already have that.


7 posted on 06/20/2019 9:00:54 AM PDT by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: Jack Black

Strikes me they are using a cannon to kill a fly and if it goes to the courts they may lose their cannon.


8 posted on 06/20/2019 9:01:49 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy

Nonsense. If the FBI can use falsified docucments to put the President of these Unites States under an electron microscope with total impunity, they can do the same for any or all of us.


9 posted on 06/20/2019 9:05:28 AM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
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To: Jack Black

Tyranny


10 posted on 06/20/2019 9:06:30 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: gibsonguy

Your name is in the same telephone book as Jack Ruby. Give us a search warrant for the city of Dallas .


11 posted on 06/20/2019 9:06:45 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Also known as the FBI Agents’ Lifetime Employment and Pension Guarantee Act”

Lotsa those acts already in force..Largest of which is the forced purchase of insurance for example that makes a WUNERFIL income for LAWYERS ...


12 posted on 06/20/2019 9:07:16 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: gaijin; EasySt; haffast; Enigo54

BO: Here’s the info.

FBI: It seems that you only have 2 users. One named “anonymous” that posts from IP address “0.0.0.0” and another that goes by the name “CodeMonkey” who also posts from IP address “0.0.0.0”.

BO: Yep, that’s correct.

FBI: Is CodeMonkey this users REAL name?

BO: Yep.


13 posted on 06/20/2019 9:07:24 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Did you know that the C_A is the largest venture capital source in the world?)
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To: Jack Black

“All users who responded” - so if you saw the original post then responded “you’re drunk go home” the FBI now has you on its interrogation list?

Where was this level of determination in finding out the truth of the Las Vegas massacre?


14 posted on 06/20/2019 9:08:03 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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Trump’s Justice department. Like Pence said, we need 4 more years to drain the swamp!


15 posted on 06/20/2019 9:08:10 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Jack Black

Wow.
If they want to get evidence this way, juries need to discount all their evidence, period.

We don’t have any real rights now. It would be better if we had George the 3rd as our monarch at this point.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_jackboots_are_coming_mass_arrests_power_grabs_and_the_politics_of_fear


16 posted on 06/20/2019 9:09:47 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: Jack Black

Why don’t they just go to all the ISPs and get info on who’s using this internet thing?


17 posted on 06/20/2019 9:10:28 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Jack Black

Getting a bunch of names to run down for no reason is a great way to keep busy when you don’t feel like doing real police work.


18 posted on 06/20/2019 9:11:00 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: gibsonguy
if it goes to the courts they may lose their cannon.

Nothing will ever happen to the FBI. They have too much dirt on anybody with any power.

19 posted on 06/20/2019 9:13:21 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: gibsonguy

They are using a cannon because cannons are fun (for deep state actors).


20 posted on 06/20/2019 9:13:32 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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