"Our" Government Continues to Trample Our Rights and Now Yahoo, MSN and AOL are Complicit in Privacy Violations
The "Justice" Department has subpoenaed Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL, demanding all search query records in a specific week in the summer of '05. Ostensibly, this is to perform research on how easy it is for children to find porn. They claim that these privacy violations are needed, in order to protect children from internet pornography. Unfortunately, as is the tendency of much of the modern American public, people are misunderstanding the situation as a needed concession in order to protect children from being IN pornography.
"Red" America's penchant for misinterpretation aside (generalization), "Big Brother" works with great ease when the dumb masses express such gullibility and "faith" in our mighty dictator and his goons. In this climate, where the government is implementing illegal wire taps, rigging elections, and anything else it pleases, It is beyond comprehension how people can still believe that the government chose now to demand these records for the reasons they've stated.
This is the latest offense stacked on top of a large litany of privacy violations, reduction of personal rights, etc., that has been put into place by the US government in the last 5 years. It is frightening to witness the governments audacity as well as the complacency of American's when the very "freedom" they tout religiously, are being taken away, with out reason and with minimal resistance.
The Department of "Justice" has, likely, initiated the beginning of the decline of our free expression on the internet. Google appreciates its customer base enough to uphold our privacy rights and continues to fight against this decline. Meanwhile, Yahoo, as well as, MSN & AOL capitulated instantly (Clear Channel anyone?) As a result, these products are now worthless.
Complacent and complicit in tyranny, at "home" and abroad, The new Yahoo way.
"Red" America's penchant for misinterpretation aside (generalization), "Big Brother" works with great ease when the dumb masses express such gullibility and "faith" in our mighty dictator and his goons. In this climate, where the government is implementing illegal wire taps, rigging elections, and anything else it pleases, It is beyond comprehension how people can still believe that the government chose now to demand these records for the reasons they've stated.
This is the latest offense stacked on top of a large litany of privacy violations, reduction of personal rights, etc., that has been put into place by the US government in the last 5 years. It is frightening to witness the governments audacity as well as the complacency of American's when the very "freedom" they tout religiously, are being taken away, with out reason and with minimal resistance.
The Department of "Justice" has, likely, initiated the beginning of the decline of our free expression on the internet. Google appreciates its customer base enough to uphold our privacy rights and continues to fight against this decline. Meanwhile, Yahoo, as well as, MSN & AOL capitulated instantly (Clear Channel anyone?) As a result, these products are now worthless.
Complacent and complicit in tyranny, at "home" and abroad, The new Yahoo way.
posted by Defiant Atheist at Wednesday, February 01, 2006
2 comments
2 Comments:
Thanks for linking to BooYahoo.
I grew up the son of a Pentacostal minister too. We have a few things in common. :)
I wonder why people with our upbringing have such disdain for censorship?
Thanks for the comment. I think our mutual disdain for censorship stems from constant exposure to potentially extreme Pentecostal behavior. From my experience such exposure can only have two outcomes; either you end up fully & willingly immersed in the mind-set or you distance yourself from it. I am certainly grateful that I chose the latter and that I am not the only one.
I definately appreciate your website. I have had a rediculous "infatuation" with Yahoo and its products for years. Then in the last year, they cost Shi Tao his freedom. Yahoo360 and Yahoo Answers have become strongholds of censorship. Now we find that they released our search records to the U.S. government. I'm obviously not the only one that's furious & I'm glad that their is some outcry against them.
Thanks again.
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