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"We'll cooperate with Communists on censorship,
but we'll fight to the death with the U.S. government to protect pedophiles!"
Posted on 03/14/2006 3:10:43 AM PST by SUSSA
The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government.
Lawyers for the Justice Department and Google are expected to elaborate on their opposing views in a San Jose hearing scheduled Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge James Ware.
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The case has focused attention on just how much personal information is stored by popular Web sites like Google - and the potential for that data to attract the interest of the government and other parties.
Although the Justice Department says it doesn't want any personal information now, a victory over Google in the case would likely encourage far more invasive requests in the future, said University of Connecticut law professor Paul Schiff Berman, who specializes in Internet law.
"The erosion of privacy tends to happen incrementally," Berman said. "While no one intrusion may seem that big, over the course of the next decade or two, you might end up in a place as a society where you never thought you would be."
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Even as it defies the Bush administration, Google recently bowed to the demands of China's Communist government by agreeing to censor its search results in that country so it would have better access to the world's fastest growing Internet market. Google's China capitulation has been harshly criticized by some of the same people cheering the company's resistance to the Justice Department subpoena.
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Obviously there is money to win if by censoring chinese google & money to loose by censoring american google.
U.S. District Judge James Ware did not immediately say whether the data will include search requests that users entered into the Internet's leading search engine.
"The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine"
What's next? The Internet Search Gestapo?
I was there in court, so at least I can tell my grandchildren I was present when free speech as we knew it ended. Query at your own peril, your search is subject to seizure for any or no reason.
How, exactly, is Google working to protect pedophiles?
it will get a lot worse... just like the UN wants to control the internet.
also, on a seperate topic - people tracking, ie. "tagging", the sky is the limit!
how exciting...
Of course, Google will try to bend over backwards (forwards?) for the Chi-Coms.
"The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine"
What's next? The Internet Search Gestapo?
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I wouldn't be surprised.
I hope they appeal it when he does.
yes it will be appealed and I will write an amicus brief for the appeal.
yes it will be appealed and I will write an amicus brief for the appeal.
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GREAT!!!
By the way, thank you for your service to our country.
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