Rising fascism in the US

Feds Demand Facebook Share Info on Anti-Trump Protesters

The U.S. Justice Department is demanding that Facebook turn over information from three accounts that could provide access to the personal details of thousands of activists who expressed interest in anti-Trump rallies.

The department obtained search warrants targeting three Facebook accounts that were used to organize Inauguration Day protests against Donald Trump, the ACLU said late Thursday. But accessing those accounts would provide information on thousands of other users who "liked" an anti-Trump Facebook page, the group explained.

The ACLU's Washington, D.C., office said in a statement it would fight the enforcement of the search warrants.

Do you have reason to assume otherwise?

What is your feelings on the Fed getting ahold of thousands of protesters or their friends personal information?

Washington Examiner bias rating is Right.

The Washington Examiner is a free daily newspaper published in Springfield, Virginia, and distributed in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It is owned by Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz. ... When Anschutz started the Examiner in its current format, he envisioned creating a conservative competitor to The Washington Post.

Political slant
The Examiner's editorial page is heavily conservative; it is headed by Mark Tapscott, with American Spectator senior editor Quin Hillyer serving as its associate editor. The paper's national political coverage, which also appears in Examiner papers in Baltimore and San Francisco, was previously headed by Bill Sammon, a former Washington Times reporter who has written several books praising George W. Bush. (Sammon is now the deputy managing editor for Fox News Channel's Washington bureau.[1]) Chris Stirewalt, who has been described as "a true conservative voice"[2], is the Examiner's political editor. Mary Katherine Ham, former managing editor of the conservative Townhall.com, briefly served as the Examiner's online editor for a few months in 2008 [3] before joining the Weekly Standard.[4] Matthew Sheffield, executive editor of the Media Research Center blog NewsBusters, is in charge of the Examiner's website.[5] Byron York, formerly of National Review, joined the paper in February 2009.[6]

I understand where Antifa is coming from but I don't condone their methods nor do I think it is effective. I think racist have as much a right to speak as anyone else and have said so. People also have to the right to object and voice their opposition to said hate speech.

If Obama was trying to get the personal data from thousands of facebook users who have looked at a certain facebook page(s), I would object as well.

Moreover, this whole line of your discussion totally ignores what is going on now with the Justice Department and their going after the left in insidious ways.

You keep imposing your UK political labels to US politics. Unless you are going with the "classical" meaning of Liberal instead of the current usage in the US...

Actually that's not an "UK political label" but the one used used anywhere else outside the USA.

Ha ha. Do you really think that the political labels used in Europe are the same as the ones use "anywhere else outside the USA".

Liberal International (LI) is a political international federation for liberal political parties.
Its headquarters is located at 1 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HD within the National Liberal Club. It was founded in Oxford in 1947, and has become the pre-eminent network for liberal parties and for the strengthening of liberalism around the world.