Lawmaker wants Google Maps to blur certain buildings

cnet ^ | 3/10/09 | Elinor Mills

[Aglooka]

As justification for the proposed censorship, Anderson is citing terrorism.

That's the excuse for everything along with the war on drugs, crime, public safety and protecting the environment.

[Kitanis]

Oh JHC....

Our lawmakers have gone insane..

[OneWingedShark]

>>As justification for the proposed censorship, Anderson is citing terrorism.
>That’s the excuse for everything along with the war on drugs, crime, public safety and protecting the environment

Don’t you mean the War on Public Safety, the Alliance with Crime (explain the corruption/bribery going on in DC...), and Destroying People’s Lives w/ Stupid Lunacy (”protecting the environment”)?

[OneWingedShark]

>Oh JHC....
>
>Our lawmakers have gone insane..

...you’re just figuring this out? [/cynic]

[LukeL]

So a collection of aerial maps prepared by the USGS are illegal?

[Raycpa]

So we blur the targets we are afraid of being attacked so the terrorists know which ones to hit?

[cripplecreek]

Rotsa ruck.

[kingu]

We must save the children..or more accurately, protect the government. I'm fine with Google censoring the rooftop of the White House - it was a nice gesture, but truthfully, just like nude sunbathing, if you don't want to be seen, don't let it hang out.

[infidel29]

Imagine if all the hospitals, schools, churches, and government buildings that appear on online maps were nothing but blurs...

To prevent terror attacks?

"Uh, Achmed, where is the hospital we're supposed to blow up?"
"Oh, it's that blur just down the street from the Long John Silver's"

...and a republican thought of this?

[cripplecreek]

Terrorists will be forced to rely on maps again. LOL

[sickoflibs]

I LOVE Google Earth. It’s free so download it. You wont believe what it does for you. You can zoom around the world and view street photos from a moving cam van that took pictures 360 degrees, from links on the earth view.

[Chickensoup]

So a collection of aerial maps prepared by the USGS are illegal?

not illegal but not readilty accessable

[Larry Lucido]

The company also began blurring peoples' faces in its Street View interface on Google Maps last year in response to privacy concerns.

My visit to the Doll House that day was for sociological research purposes only.

[Slings and Arrows]

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.”
—Old Jewish proverb

[Chickensoup]

You can zoom around the world and view street photos from a moving cam van that took pictures 360 degrees, from links on the earth view.

and so can every robber, crazy, terrorist, murderer, and enemy.

[puppypusher]

These politicians are stupid.These photo's can be purchased by terrorists easily.They can go to any country that has satelite photographic capability and buy them.

Hell even India is launching a satelite program to take pictures and I think she's going to be selling them to Google if what I read is right.

[Kitanis]

No.. but they are proving it every day

[Darren McCarty]

With Republicans like that, who needs democraps.

The measure would apply to Web site operators and online services that make "a virtual globe browser available to members of the public" and fails to define what that is. It also specifies that a violation would constitute a criminal offense with fines of up to $250,000 per day.

A. Criminal offense of $250,000? Is this a felony?
B. How can you not define what the violation is? That's incompetence on the level of Obama.
C. Terrorism is the Republicans excuse for bad laws. It's like "the children" and "war on poverty" for democrats and the "war on drugs" for both parties.

[Secret Agent Man]

He just doesn’t want his wife, constituents and law enforcement to see what he’s up to.

If you’re innocent you’ve got nothing to hide, right, congressman? That’s what we’ve been fed for years now.