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Attorney General and Google Go To Court
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| 2/28/06
| Morgan Sansbury
Posted on 02/28/2006 1:02:48 PM PST by EvilHomer
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:02:50 PM PST
by
EvilHomer
To: EvilHomer
Yeah, the government won't see any names, only IP addresses!
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:06:19 PM PST
by
TommyDale
To: EvilHomer
Considering how much of the internet is now connected through Google's search engine, I'm not surprised they'd object. But using the excuse of privacy? Sorry, it doesn't wash when you cooperate with China's draconian system.
Google should publish a data search price list, open it to anyone who wants to pay the money, and if the US Government wants to be one of the consumers of that data, more power to them. Search data is one of google's biggest assets, and COPA or no COPA, granting access to that data should come at a huge price tag.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:06:24 PM PST
by
kingu
(Liberalism: The art of sticking your fingers in your ears and going NANANANA..)
To: EvilHomer
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:06:43 PM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: EvilHomer
Well, it's a bit inconsistent for Google to be standing up to the Justice Department but cooperating with the ChiCom authorities, nonetheless I'm glad they're doing it. Sometimes hypocrisy is the just the least bad option.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:07:09 PM PST
by
inquest
(If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
To: NJ_gent
What do you mean?
Google knuckled under to the commies.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:08:35 PM PST
by
Nitro
To: kingu
"Google should publish a data search price list, open it to anyone who wants to pay the money"
Doing this would kill their userbase. People would flee from Google in droves, using any other search engine (no matter how bad) rather than have information about themselves sold to the highest bidder.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:09:00 PM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: inquest
Well, it's a bit inconsistent for Google to be standing up to the Justice Department but cooperating with the ChiCom authorities...My thoughts exactly.
Do No Evil.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:09:19 PM PST
by
Paul Ross
(Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
To: Paul Ross
What about the rest of the post? Your thoughts exactly as well?
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:10:51 PM PST
by
inquest
(If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
To: NJ_gent
Doing this would kill their userbase. People would flee from Google in droves, using any other search engine (no matter how bad) rather than have information about themselves sold to the highest bidder.
That data will eventually be sold to the highest bidder. Yahoo and MSN have both already sold part of their data trove, and also submitted the data to the US Gov. Where will people go? A9.com? That's google. Netscape? That's google. Most search engines are using google's dataset already. If you don't want your search data to be sold, don't search. It's pretty simple at this point.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:13:32 PM PST
by
kingu
(Liberalism: The art of sticking your fingers in your ears and going NANANANA..)
To: Nitro
Google is run by Commies...
You see how much they donated to the DNC on 04?
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:14:10 PM PST
by
fhlh
(Polls are for Strippers.)
To: EvilHomer
The information, if obtained by the federal government, would be used to bolster support for the Child Online Protection Act Trampling intellectual property rights in pursuit of nanny-statism. Swell.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:18:09 PM PST
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: EvilHomer
I'm against the goobernuts on this one.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:18:52 PM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: fhlh
No wonder then, I didn't see them at the Republican National Convention at the Garden in 2004.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:23:51 PM PST
by
Nitro
To: mtbopfuyn
Damn.....that really sucks! Reminds me of the previous Attorney General and her jackbooted stormtroopers going after the little Cuban kid in Miami.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:24:26 PM PST
by
katya8
To: EvilHomer
Perhaps we should just ask China to ask Google for us.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:24:51 PM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: inquest
I support their opposition, its a stance that has to be advocated, and someone test the new laws. This will be going all the way to the top, IMHO.
But Where was this level of resolve with respect to China?
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:24:58 PM PST
by
Paul Ross
(Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
To: Paul Ross
I guess at the end of the day idealism lost to the prospect of over a billion new Google users. It is a business after all.
To: Nitro
They cooperated, which is unfortunate. However, I don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I like the fact that they haven't rolled over for our government, and I like the fact that one of the largest data accumulators isn't handing that information out to anyone and everyone who comes 'a knockin'.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:29:55 PM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: avg_freeper
Perhaps we should just ask China to ask Google for us.And the 2006 touche award goes to...! Thank-you, I needed that. It will grace my sign when I confront these s.o.b.'s in San Jose on the 13th, with your permission.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:30:06 PM PST
by
at bay
("We actually did an evil....." Eric Scmidt, CEO Google)
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