Google and its rivals have been criticized for their business practices in China, where Google and MSN have filtered keywords like "human rights" and "democracy" out of their search-engine results. Last fall, it was revealed that Yahoo had cooperated with authorities seeking the identity of a Chinese e-mail subscriber who had distributed a government warning about protests; he is now serving a 10-year prison term.
Googled any porn sites lately - even just out of curiosity or for research? Stumbled onto any sites critical of the Bush administration and the war? Have you used any words or terms in your emails that might be red-flagged for investigation like: loss of freedoms, democracy, bill of rights, fascism, stolen election, exit polls, lied about WMD, global warming, Hitler, kill, bomb, impeach, war crimes, tar and feather or bitch slap? You likely have been especially targeted if you used those words in conjunction with any of the words like Iraq, Bush, Chaney, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Diebold, Alito, Florida, Ohio, Supreme Court, King George, Chimp, f**kin idiot, etc.
Various names like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary, Fitzgerald, Howard Dean, Valarie Plame, Joe Wilson, Hugo Chavez and a host of others have been red flagged for some time. Several names on that list are considered a high security threat and were given added emphasis a few days ago. They include Osama bin Laden and Al Gore.
Have any of your neighbors suspiciously disappeared lately?
We must spy on you to protect our freedom, say the neo-cons. We are only looking for Child Pornographers and don't know how your name got on the list. Get over it! You only spent four years in prison and we apologize that you were not allowed to contact your family and they had no idea what had happened to you. So you were waterboarded or bagged. It was all done in the interest of national security. The president by virtue of his position as Commander In Chief has the powers to do whatever he deems necessary to protect our freedom. We are in a state of war and depending on the outcome of the 2006 congressional races we might have to put the 2008 presidential election on hold - until we are no longer in a state of war. It will be best for national security.
Trust us they say.
Gary
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This is not really about pornography. The law Inquisitor General Gonzales used to subpoena Google was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court over two years ago. I am writing mainly to put everyone on notice due to the fact that Yahoo, which unfortunately owns the former eGroups, is probably already cooperating with the Bush regime, especially if you consider how far they bent over and how wide they spread, not to mention how quickly they did both, for the Chinese.
Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/technology/20google.html?th&emc=th
Document: Google subpoenaed over pornography
http://news.zdnet.com/2300-9595_22-6028780-1.html?tag=nl.e589
