Posted on 06/04/2021 3:34:15 PM PDT by algore
The FBI has asked USA Today for the IP addresses and phone numbers of everyone who read one of its articles during a 35-minute period in February as part of an ongoing child porn probe, in what the publisher is calling a violation of the First Amendment.
On February 2, FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were killed and three others were wounded when 55-year-old David Huber started shooting as they approached his apartment in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 6am.
USA Today was among the many news outfits that covered the story on February 2. It published the story at 9.29 that morning - three-and-a-half hours after it happened.
USA Today is fighting back, saying the order violates the First Amendment.
'A government demand for records that would identify specific individuals who read specific expressive materials, like the Subpoena at issue here, invades the First Amendment rights of both publisher and reader, and must be quashed accordingly,' lawyers for Gannett, the company that owns USA Today, said.
They added said the subpoena's vague reference to 'a federal criminal investigation' cannot 'possibly justify such an abridgment of free speech.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The warrant for Hunter Biden’s laptop was signed by an FBI guy who works on child porn.
Hooer backstabbed LBJ sometimes, however. When LBJ ordered him to bug Goldwater, he reportedly called Goldwater to tell him.
Every time I visit my grandparent’s gravesite, I say “Grandpop, you were right!”
Is now?
Ask the 4 fellows that went to prison for murder they did not commit so as to protect the FBI informant Whitey Bulger.
FBI knew about it all along but needed to protect their rat.
FBI is and has been horse shit dirty for decades.
The media will fight to protect child predators but give up Trump supporters before they finish their first cup of coffee.
Teah, I looked to make sure it wasn’t from the Bee :/
I think the FBI is very paranoid. They might want information on the readers to see if others share the same animus against the FBI and put them on a warning or blacklist so they can follow them.
Sites do collect IPs and time stamps of visits.
Say all the FBI has a browsing history of a suspect, including times visited, but dont know anything else. They go to the site owners and request IP addresses of visitors and the times they visited. FBI then uses that data against the browsing history it has to find the IP address of the individual they are looking for. Then they go to the ISP that owns the address and find out which customer had that IP at that time.
I am so glad I use an anonymous VPN for everything. Everyone should, f*** the FBI. The New Stasi.
Thanks, Mikey :)
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