01.21.06
google-eyed
so — NSA eavesdropping isn’t enough: now, the lunatics in Tweedle-D.C. want the power to sift thru the entire fucking Internet, without prior cause, much less probable cause…
the excuse for this latest sideways assault on our civil liberties is, as always, everybody’s favorite old saw "saving the kiddies from pornography"… the guv’mint asked all the major search engines, ostensibly in support of an appeal of the Child Online Protection Act, to submit a week’s worth of, basically, everything everyone’s searched for…
it’s for our own good. to protect the children. no personal information will be divulged. the typical scare-tactic bullshit that passes for justification these days…
"People took a long time to get accustomed to using the Internet for shopping and other activities like researching movies. If they feel Big Brother is watching them, they will be concerned." - Mukul Krishna, analyst with Frost & Sullivan.
Yahoo! caved, as did MSN and AOL. Search engine leader Google has, thus far, politely but firmly said no… so predictably, their stock price fell immediately, and some even question their patriotism…
so far, Google stands alone, vowing not only to resist, but to resist vigorously, this egregious encroachment upon our civil liberties delivered in fluent Tweedle-D.C. doublespeak… well, they’ve got the money to take on the guv’mint lawyers… and perhaps this stance shouldn’t surprise us, coming from a company whose motto is "Do no evil"…
words to live by…
"If you are doing research on breast cancer and you put in the key word ‘breast’ do you end up on someone’s list? I hope Google resists the subpoena." - New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan), chairperson, Council’s Select Committee on Technology in Government.
they’re your rights… are they worth fighting for?