Friday, January 20, 2006

True Dat. Double True!

With Osama bin Laden back in the headlines, the Bush administration sets its sight on...

Porn.

Huh... Okay then.

USAToday: Google battles government over porn investigation

But Google is fighting back...

AP: Google Rebuffs Feds on Search Requests
Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine — a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance...

...The government wants a list all requests entered into Google's search engine during an unspecified single week — a breakdown that could conceivably span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks 1 million randomly selected Web addresses from various Google databases.

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....

Another way the Bush administration continues to turn off the libertarian wing of the Republican party.

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