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Feds want Google search records (part of effort to revive an Internet child protection law)
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| 1/18/06
| Howard Mintz
Posted on 01/18/2006 9:27:48 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content inaccessible to minors.So...porn sites should be accessible to minors?? What am I missing here?
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:33:31 PM PST
by
Americanchild
(..and deliver us all from Islam! Amen!)
To: NormsRevenge
Absolutely right - the government seems to think they have a right to any and all data held by nongovernmental organizations. The allegation is not that they have done anything illigal - they just want to analyze Google's data to see who might have been doing something illegal.
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:34:31 PM PST
by
al_again
To: Americanchild
What am I missing here? Um, the scholastic records of Mr. Mintz and his editors?
To: Americanchild
There is only one way to make this content inaccessible to minors and that is to not have it, period. Some companies tried making their websites inaccessible if you didn't have a credit card, by making it so you had to log in, but only allowed to log in if you had a credit card but that didn't work, because alot of kids have credit cards.
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:37:51 PM PST
by
chae
(R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero He lied, he cheated, he stole my heart)
To: Americanchild
ouch.
We'll see if the Merc edits that little piece.
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:41:17 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Oh so now Google is answerable to the govt ?
To: al_again
Absolutely right - the government seems to think they have a right to any and all data held by nongovernmental organizations. The allegation is not that they have done anything illigal - they just want to analyze Google's data to see who might have been doing something illegal. It's even worse than that -- according to the article, the feds just want the data in order to help them argue a point of law...
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:51:28 PM PST
by
Ichneumon
To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
This intrusion thing is a slippery slope. Enough already. Don't we have enough problems to work on? Spend the time fixing things in Iraq and with the deficit, and the hundred other things that are going wrong.
How does this type of thing make anyone more secure? It's a bunch of BS. I hope Google prevails. I'd side with the libertarian leaners on this issue.
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:57:57 PM PST
by
kbo
To: kbo
But it's for the children.
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:59:08 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
I very much hope this fails for the government. This is like a pre-cognitive crime. "If you don't have anything to hide, why were you searching for the words 'girls tight dresses pigtails', hmm?"
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:59:31 PM PST
by
Sirloin
To: Ichneumon
How would this help prosecute the internet sites that are hosted outside of this country?
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:59:57 PM PST
by
kbo
To: kbo
As much as I disagree with the politics of the founders of Google, this is pretty scary. The search records could be used for any type of snooping. I hope Google stands firm, and I hope the courts do, too.
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:07:07 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(Look, Daddy! Teacher says every time a Kennedy talks, a Republican gets a house seat!)
To: NormsRevenge
The government contends it needs the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches. Are they completely impaired?
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:07:08 PM PST
by
M203M4
To: Sirloin
Why do they need to subpoena Google's search records to find the content providers? The article says they're after the site owners/content providers. They could just do searches themselves to find the sites, then work with Network Solutions to find out the domain owner info.
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:07:29 PM PST
by
kbo
To: M203M4
I guess the DOJ and WH have some of their search functions disabled or blocked since Clinton left town..
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:09:18 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Confidential to the Justice Dept...
Just go to WWW.GOOGLE.COM and search for whatever you wish.
To: NormsRevenge
If they want it, tell the feds to do it the old fashioned way. Buy all the stock out in a hostile takeover and get the data that way.
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:13:55 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Governments want to copy all the data on you in existence, but will prosecute you for an mp3 copied.)
To: NormsRevenge
It is pretty sad that the people who are relied on to ferret out online discussions of terrorist plots are incapable of finding internet porn via google themselves.
Maybe they think google is hiding the good stuff for themselves? :)
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:16:58 PM PST
by
M203M4
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