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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. Re:This is absurd. by Hobaird · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have always been at war with Afghanistan. We have always been allies with Russia.

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  2. Awwwkkkkk FSCK!!! by tcc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now with all this crap going around, gnutella will not only have porn, mp3 and DiVX-encoded movies and warez going around... it'll be jammed with blueprints and engineering stuff...

    I'm sure it's all a big plot to clug the bandwidth so people stop leeching warez and vids and go buy them for all the trouble it'll take to get them for free...

    ...brilliant...

    heh

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