Quote from jzlucas:
??? Federal prosecuters want Google search records to see if internet pornography laws are being broken. To answer your question, it has everything to do with it. Again, they're just trying to protect children. No harm in that. NO INFO RELEASED IS PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE. I don't believe the everyday American realizes this, or we wouldn't have this panic.
Quote from Spydertrader:
I think you need to read your previous post again, Then, read my response. You posted the following ....
To which, I responded thus....
I did not compare Bush to the Nazi party. I compared your apathetic attitude to that of Martin Niemöller. I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) you practiced neither terrorism, nor pedophilia, just as Martin Niemöller described himself as neither a communist, nor a trade unionist.
- Spydertrader
Federal prosecuters want Google search records to protect children from viewing online porn
Again, these posts are fine, I agree in some respect. I think some opinions are a bit extreme, thats all.Quote from Spydertrader:
âExperience should teach us to be most on guard to protect liberty when the Governmentâs purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.â
âUnited States v. Olmstead, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1925) (Brandeis, J., dissenting)
- Spydertrader
Quote from jzlucas:
??? Federal prosecuters want Google search records to see if internet pornography laws are being broken. To answer your question, it has everything to do with it. Again, they're just trying to protect children. No harm in that. NO INFO RELEASED IS PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE. I don't believe the everyday American realizes this, or we wouldn't have this panic.
In court papers that the San Jose Mercury News reported on after seeing them Wednesday, the Bush administration depicts the information as vital in its effort to restore online child protection laws that have been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Im not a government official, therefore I dont know.Quote from Bob111:
wow. can you please explain to me how they will do that? search the records to protect children from browsing?
sounds really strange...
A slippery slope and abuse of power? If this escalates beyond terror/ porn, yes I agree, it is abuse of power.Quote from sprstpd:
You do not know that the information released cannot be tracked to individuals.
As the MSN article states:
A link to the history of the Child Online Protection act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act
So it appears the government wants to pry into the private actions of people in order to prove their case that the Online Child Protection act should not have been struck down. Again, a slippery slope and an abuse of power.
Yahoo and AOL insist that the information can't be tracked.Quote from sprstpd:
You do not know that the information released cannot be tracked to individuals.
As the MSN article states:
A link to the history of the Child Online Protection act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act
So it appears the government wants to pry into the private actions of people in order to prove their case that the Online Child Protection act should not have been struck down. Again, a slippery slope and an abuse of power.