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  1. FLavius Valerius Constantinus

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    Child Pornography is a very serious problem in this country, very serious.

     

    NO NO, this whole issue of government vs Google case is not about child *or*, not at all. It is about children looking at pornography... it’s about a proposed law requiring those sites to restrict access to minors, the Child Online Protection Act from 1998, which just didn’t get through in the past because the ACLU filed suit and every court along the way - up to the supreme court has prevented it from being enforced.

     

    ...and now the current administration wants to revive (and for that reason, asked different search engines to hand over search logs and indexed URLs to prove the law is needed) this...

     

    cheers

    viggen

  2. FLavius Valerius Constantinus

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    You know, the US government will get that data one way or another in light of the domestic surveilance by the NSA issues. I mean really, the government have their own top of the world hackers working for them. Google is gonna be trampled. Also, when Congress eventually discusses about extending the Patriot act, Big Brother is gonna defintely do some dirty work.

     

    The best hackers work already for Google...

     

    ...and it's all good and well that they asked for searches and terms, but what exactly does that prove to the Gov. about the children viewing *or*? It doesn't give specific filter information or IP address, so they couldn't know if the parents are infact filtering anything or if Google, MSN, Yahoo, Aol are filtering anything or even if the school itself is filtering anything. And more importantly, it doesn't even give information on if the person doing the searches resides within the United States in the first place!

     

    So, what purpose does this information serve to the Government except for the lobbyists? It's all about precedence!!! and that's scary. I am glad Google is fighting this ..

  5. FLavius Valerius Constantinus

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    I find it hard to see how any information Google could provide would help the Government in this case. Sounds to me more like the Government is trying to set a legal precedent and is using Child Pornography merely as an excuse. Later if they get them, they can look for whatever they want in there (..requests for the pages of political parties ..whatever ) IMO This is just an attempt by the evangelical churches via the government to eventually ( if they get away with this "request" ) say what can and can't be hosted in the US and what can and cant be accessed from the US .. The anti childpron is just their smoke and mirrors to hide their agenda .. cheers viggen

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