I think someone should tell alberto gonzales that illegal aliens are smuggling porn over our open borders. Maybe that would get them to actually do something.
They really hadn't oughta use "porn" and "probe" in the same sentence.
The Bush Admin is getting out of control on this stuff. I was at first willing to accept electronic survelliance without a warrant against anyone with a clear connection to al Qaeda for national security reasons.
But this isn't about terrorism or national security. There is no crime here that I can see that justifies a subpeona. This is a Justice Department that, IMO, no longer feels that the 5th applies to them - and they will lose my support over more important issues if they keep this kind of nonsense up - because then I will start to wonder, what other kind of stuff do they have the NSA looking at if they can rationalize this kind of abuse of power?
Big brother going after big brother...
1) It doesn't sound to me like they're looking for identities, just a tally number of pertinent searches, and
2) I'm not sure I can see how knowing a number is pertinent to the process involved in crafting the legislation.
Notice that this AP article repeatedly refers to "pornography," so you have to read it very closely to see that the administration is only concerned about CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
Most people would agree that child pornography is not a good thing. Unfortunately, the liberal justices on the Supreme Court disagreed, and struck down the law.
I can see why people would worry about a slippery slope here, but it seems fairly clear that the concern is limited to child pornography. Or at least it would be clear if AP didn't deliberately distort their article.
The phrase "overly broad" comes to mind.
Is there a horrible stuck-keyboard-key problem in America or something???!?
The more this administration acts, the more I don't care who's in the White House next.
Another example of how the guberment wants complete control.
Give em an inch and they'll take a mile.
What the hell? Dont parents want to raise their kids anymore? Do they want big brother to do it for them? Have these parents ever heard of paying attention to what their kids do online? Whats wrong with the parental control functions on their PCs?
I think all the President would have to do is find all the computer folks who have gone blind quickly.
Illegal fishing expedition.
Finally getting serious about controlling porn.
Dopey AP. The Supreme Court has not yet struck down the law, it just affirmed the preliminary injunction entered against enforcement of the law on the basis that it likely violated the First Amendment. Meanwhile, as the article does correctly indicate, the actual case goes on in the district court.
Maybe we should have a law that says the government can come into our homes without a warrant because they are simply looking for child pornography.
Is there anything left in the Constitution the government would like to leave intact?
Ummmm....point of order here...
Constitution of The United States of America:
4th Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
The word "random" simply doesn't cut the mustard.
Regardless, too many American wankers are complicit to ever tolerate a significant crackdown on porn. Even if it were revealed that a majority of internet porn used sex slaves, as is rather likely, the universal wolf would find a rationale to keep scarfing.
this is nuts.
hire some FBI agents to key in the search words, and when they find sites hosting child porn - find out where they are, and use legal due process to shut them down and bust them. what is so hard about that?
The day that some genius decided that the First Amendment protected a photo of a guy with a whip up his butt is the day that the First Amendment ceased to have any real meaning at all.
This will sure be muddled with all the data mining searches we do.
Makes me think the JD officials don't really know what they are looking for.
I could write a program (and in fact have written one) that would ping every single possible IPv4 address on the internet and do a reverse DNS look up on any that had sites operating.
As for all Google searches over a specified period, how is that gonna help with COPA?
Do kids search for porn using different search terms than adults?