Re: [OT] Yahoo, MSN, AOL = Satan, Google=God

Minä suojelen sinua kaikelta, mitä ikinä keksitkin sanoa, Cyde Weys:
> Apparently Google is the only search engine you can trust. All of
> Yahoo, MSN, and AOL recently complied with a judicial order to turn
> over a week's worth of searches under the ostensible guise of
> preventing easy access for children to pornography.

Amusingly, the local Fox affiliate characterized this as a
"child pornography program" during its report. Hard to say
whether it was being dishonest or sloppy, with Fox I tend
to think both.

rich

> There are so many
> things wrong with this I don't have time to get into them, but let's
> just say this ... what with the recent news of unwarranted and illegal
> wiretapping on US citizens, do we REALLY want even more spying? Do you
> want the government to know all of your searches? (Which is what they
> would inevitably end up doing.) Do you want to lose every last shred
> of privacy you had on the Internet? Of course not. Which is why you
> should never use Yahoo, MSN, or AOL for your Internet searches, as they
> are rolled over as soon as the Justice Department came knocking. Only
> Google refused to offer up the information, denouncing it as the
> invasion of privacy it really is.

> More info here:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/19/_doj_search_requests.html


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