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Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases

Posted by timothy on from the we-never-said-that dept.

unix guy writes: "Our good friends and protectors in the U.S. Gov't have decided that what we used to know we can't know any longer. This LA Times story talks about libraries being ordered to destroy existing government reports and data sources in the name of homeland security." Is it really a fair trade to give up readily-available information about "airports, water treatment plants, nuclear reactors and more"?

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  1. nothing new here by Xross_Ied · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    trust us you don't need to know this stuff.

    welcome to the united police state of america

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    1. Re:nothing new here by Xross_Ied · · Score: 2, Flamebait

      sorry you think so..

      Anytime information is destroyed its a bad thing, does not matter if its by a private corporation or the goverment (especially the government).

      Instead of asking the libraries to make this information MORE SECURE*, they are asking that the information be destroied.

      * security could be something as simple as..
      a) stored in a reseved area
      b) accessiable only after you have presented a drivers license or some other photoID.

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  2. Re:Internet -- WRONG!!! by ebcdic+spork · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    hyuk hyuk look at the two fags fighting!

  3. FuCK YoU AsSHOLE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Go To HeLL!

  4. Quit yer bitchin'. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Whine, whine, whine, moan, complain.

    Thus whined Timmy:

    Is it really a fair trade to give up readily-available information about "airports, water treatment plants, nuclear reactors and more"?

    Life ain't fair, bitch. If you or unix fag or anybody else has a problem with this, whining on /. isn't going to fix a fucking thing. I'm getting sick and tired of you fuckin' /. primadonnas whinin' and moanin' about our erosion of rights, the steady eliding of freedoms.

    Read my lips, motherfucker: If you don't like it, tell it to the people that matter. Guess what? That doesn't mean me, or any other mo' fo' who sits here and reads /. because they don't have a fuckin' life. Complain to your local library. Stand up for yourself, and for your so-called rights, instead of whining about it.

    unix-fag, you're nothin' but a pussy if all you can do is drivel about your so-called problem to us losers who don't have a life to begin with. If you don't like the way the cookie is crumblin', get off your ass and tell it to the people that matter. Just stop your candy-ass whinin' and do what's right. Timmy-boy ain't going to fix your problem. If you have a problem, be a man (or she-man) and fix it yourself.

  5. wow! a troll! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nice troll! For a minute I was almost convinced that you really do hate america and love arabia.

  6. HOORAY by arseonick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    God bless America, land of the free!