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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where are the editors?

[rsilverman]

... sidestep typically insideous a provision...

Um, how about: ... sidestep a typically insidious provision...

OK, this is absurd. Judging by the general arrogance level, poeple who post to Slashdot obviously think of themselves as pretty smart. It's not very convincing, when the editing, spelling, grammar, etc. in the posts is so consistently bad! And do the Slashdot folks really think their publication can be taken seriously, when it's apparently edited by a bunch of not-very-well-educated 6th-graders? Wake up.