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Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:23:40 GMT
Shame on Yahoo!, AQOL, and MSN. People should pay attention to this. The 'War on Terror' is obviously important to the Bush Adminsitration (as it rightly should to us all), but apparently so is the 'War on Porn'. 30 August 2005 Attorney General Gonzales' Internet Priority? Porn, not Terrorists http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/08/attorney-general-gonzales-internet.html 19 January 2006 Feds After Google Data to Revive Porn Law http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/01/feds-after-google-data-to-revive-porn.html 19 January 2006 Is Porn a Growing or Shrinking Business? http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/01/is-porn-growing-or-shrinking-business.html ..and now this (below). The Bush adminstration, in addition to its preoccupation with spying on law-abiding U.S. citizens, also seems to be obsessively interested in our fetishes and sexual interests online. This is starting to border on trying to enforcthe administration's religious moralities through legislation -- something that should scare the pants off of each and every one of us (no pun intended). Now, A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that: [snip] An influential U.S. Senator warned the adult entertainment industry on Thursday that if it does not develop a rating system for its Internet content, Congress will. My advice to your clients is that you better do it soon or we will mandate it if you don't," Republican Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record) of Alaska, chairman of the Commerce Committee, told Paul Cambria, general counsel to the Adult Freedom Foundation. Cambria told the committee hearing that it was the first time his group had been invited to testify before Congress on the issue and he would take the message back to his clients. [snip] More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/wr_nm/congress_pornography_dc Americans, your rights are under seige by the religious right, - ferg -- "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/19/_doj_search_requests.html Thursday, January 19, 2006 DoJ search requests: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes. Update: Earlier today, I asked a Justice Department spokesperson which search engines other than Google received requests to provide search records. The answer: Yahoo, AOL, and MSN were also asked to supply search records information, and all complied. Google did not, and that is why the DoJ asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the company to do so. Another fact to consider as you sift through news coverage: Justice is not requesting this data in the course of a criminal investigation, but in order to defend its argument that the Child Online Protection Act is constitutionally sound. It seems apparent that Google objected to the request not on privacy grounds, but because the request was overly broad and burdensome. Privacy advocates I spoke to today, including attorney Sherwin Siy at EPIC, say while the DoJ's request would not identify individual users, the scope and nature of this request sets a troubling precedent. Today, they argue, only search strings and urls; tomorrow, perhaps, the IP addresses of all users who typed in "Osama Bin Laden." [snip] -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Richard M. Smith (Jan 19)
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- Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Fergie (Jan 19)
- Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Drsolly (Jan 19)
- Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Dude VanWinkle (Jan 19)
- Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes TheGesus (Jan 20)
- Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Fergie (Jan 19)
- Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Drsolly (Jan 19)
- RE: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Blanchard_Michael (Jan 20)
- Re: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes Fergie (Jan 20)