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DoJ search requests: Yahoo, AOL, MSN said "Yes"

d2viant writes "Elaborating on a previous article on Slashdot, it appears that the search engines which complied for Department of Justice requests for logs were apparently AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. According to the article, Justice is not requesting this data in the course of a criminal investigation, but in order to defend its argument that the Child Online Protection Act is constitutionally sound."

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  1. What did they find? by Quaoar · · Score: 4, Funny

    The giraffe video?

    Giraffes. Who couldn't appreciate those long necks? So slender .

    Why confront me? It's obvious.

    She's stalling until the police arrive.

    "Nothing you saw was illegal - in the countries it was filmed. "

    So appropriate.

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  2. Re:Sore Thumb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...until Bush is out of office (which may come sooner than 3 years, it seems...)

    Says who? The man could strangle a puppy on national television and keep his position. The only impeachable offense around here is a blow job, apparently, and I don't see him getting one any time soon.

  3. Trust Us, We're From the Government by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Funny

    And the DoJ's boss invaded Iraq to find WMD.

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  4. Re:GNAA Announces Victory over AOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why, Kyle Varga of Alpharetta, GA? Why?

  5. Re:Sore Thumb by 'nother+poster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, the puppy was a terrorist.

  6. Re:If not in size... by 2674 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hear, Hear. In my book google just went from [Do No Evil] to [Do Good] and [Kick the motherfuckers who want to deprive me of my constitutionally given rights in the teeth].Long Live Google.

    Amen

  7. So we should do our part by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Funny

    So we should do our part: let's swamp Google with sex searches!!!

  8. Good Morning America ! by da5idnetlimit.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Following the incredible reversal in the "Google vs DoJ" case, the Supreme court confirmed that kids watching porn is all right as long as it is kids porn.

    Sesame Street is the first to react with the DVD (thought lost) title "Frogs'n Sow - Peggy Gets It !"

    On other news, the pope died of a heart attack while watching what he thought were Sesame Streets Re-run, and GW Bush commited seppuku with a preztel on seeing the show.

    Now the Dow-Jones, with the barrel @ 199$, the Emirates decided to buy the US of A..."

    Do I really need to put a "/laugh, it's funny" marker ? 8p

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  9. I think Google should comply with the request... by tlambert · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Google should comply with the request... ...by running it through something like CAPTCHA and providing the information as hard copy.

    -- Terry

  10. A perfect layperson's recation by halr9000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just asked my wife what she thought and her immediate response was, "That's ok, I use Google". :)

    1. Re:A perfect layperson's recation by GoofyBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dude, your wife surfs for kiddie-pr0n?

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  11. Re:Do any Americans actually feel safer? by GoofyBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Mr. Bennett

    One of citizens of your state, x_man, would like you to inform you about an important issue regarding "EU Sofware Patent Argument to Reopen"

    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174228&cid =14492792

    Please note that we consider this post important becuase it was voted by at least 5 people who may or may not be American citizens, may or may not vote in your state and may or may not be some 12-year old kid who should really be studying for his test tomorrow.

    Thank you for your attention.

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  12. Re:About time! by cazbar · · Score: 5, Funny
    "The day is rapidly approaching when we wake up and our rights will not mean anything ALL IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING US FROM [insert irrational fear here]."

    Rapidly approaching? I thought that day was a couple years ago.

  13. A related story by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    A friend of mine is a chef and found out the hard way...do NOT google for a "loose meat sandwich"!!!

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    1. Re:A related story by Pseudonym · · Score: 2, Funny

      I hear you. I once tried to find out the answer to the age-old Monty Python question. Do not google for "speed swallow".

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    2. Re:A related story by protohiro1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      There are some things that you cannot unsee.

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    3. Re:A related story by shrewd · · Score: 2, Funny

      when i was showing my old man the wonders of the internet (a few years ago) i was demonstrating search engines and asked him to name something like one of his hobbies, he was into leatherworking at the time and responded with keywords like "Strap" "harness" and other things like that.... stupidly i clicked the i'm feeling lucky button.... sigh...

  14. In Soviet Russia... by 0xDEADC0DE · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...search engine indexes you.

  15. Re:not only that by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
    More to the point, why is it perfectly legal for me (in this state at least) to bend a 16-year-old girl over the back of a chair and fuck her brains out... but God forbid I take a nude picture of her?

    Oh please, your question is purely hypothetical, and has no real bearing on reality. I mean, if you or I had a chance in hell of doing either of those things, would we be posting on /.?

  16. Re:not only that by oldwolf13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> Won't someone please think of the children?

    I believe that's what got us into this mess in the first place!

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