> So - what if the hosting company decides to hand over the data because the higherups are very patriotic and find it distasteful that anyone would disrupt the

> So - what if the hosting company decides to hand over the data because the higherups are very patriotic and find it distasteful that anyone would disrupt the presidential inauguration? I don't understand the reasoning that prompted you to ask that question. This issue is not that Dreamhost willingly handed the information over to the DoJ, the issue is the government is trying to force them and Dreamhost doesn't want to. > In both cases it's private companies making their own laws, and that is really worrying What do you propose? All companies and citizens have to ask the government every time they make any kind of decision?