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Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act
Skyshadow writes "Vermont Bookseller Bear Pond Books has announced that they will purge their sales records at the request of customers . This would effectively sidestep typically insideous a provision of the PATRIOT Act which allows government agencies to secretly seize sales records. The store's co-owner, Michael Katzenberg, put it this way: 'When the CIA comes and asks what you've read because they're suspicious of you, we can't tell them because we don't have it... That's just a basic right, to be able to read what you want without fear that somebody is looking over your shoulder to see what you're reading.' Now if only certain other booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here."
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That's enough, my son. I absolve you.
Considered harmful.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
People whom we help get arrested also bought...
"I certainly don't want some draft dodging mophead as president."
Yes, I agree. Let's all hope that Dubya keeps his hair short.
Most government agents may not be smart enough to do a basic google search. Sort of like how antiwar activists in the early 1970s would get knocks on the door by FBI agents to confirm where they live, when all the Famous But Incompetent folks would have had to do was look in the phonebook.
' Now if only certain other booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here."
dude, you forgot to put slashdot's affiliate ID in the BN link.
...Just great, I bought 2600 with my check card a few times. Guess that will come back to haunt me.