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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. GNAA Announces Victory over AOL by PlayfullyClever · · Score: -1, Troll
    GNAA Announces Victory over AOL
    GNAA Announces Victory over AOL
    Monday, May 17 2004, GNAA, Nigeria

    "Who is the Greatest Man Alive?" - If you ask Gary Niger, he'll tell you it is most definitely Osama Bin Laden.

    The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) announced today further victory in their current program to bring about total breakdown of the AOL customer relation system.

    AOL Corporate Policy has been changed after GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) special operative Gary Niger's constant abuse of their "secret question" program designed to provide a futile illusion of security for the mongoloids and sodomites that comprise their customer base.

    The "custom question" option, allowing users to create their own question, has been removed following the efforts of Niger and other fearsome Gay Niggers from the GNAA's top secret "Black Ops" divison.

    With the removal of this option, trolls are now forced to use pre-approved AOL "secret question" options when signing up for fraudlent accounts for the purpose of downloading gay pornography and meeting up with the clandestine "homo thug" underground.

    "I don't know why it changed, exactly. Corporate HQ didn't tell us," said Tracy, an AOL representative. "It happened two or three days ago."

    Tracy was unavailable for further comment, as she was masturbating furiously under her desk - claiming that "Ten guys were on the phone and (she) had to take them all on."

    An AOL executive, speaking under the condition of anonymnity, said the change in policy came after widespread employee unrest, culminating in an incident of mass sodomy taking place in the Ogden, Utah call center.

    Gary Niger and other members of the GNAA "Black Ops" division continue to use the "custom question" trolling technique with various punjabis in the Bangalore, India call center - who haven't gotten the memo yet.

    Meanwhile, GNAA Command is working on the creation of new methods of trolling to work within the confines of this new standard, still flush with victory.

    Nick Berg's head was unavailable for comment at the time of this release.

    About America Online, Inc.

    America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.

    About GNAA:
    GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

    Are you GAY ?
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    If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
    Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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  2. Why is this so bad? by Pres.+Ronald+Reagan · · Score: -1, Troll

    What decent human being could be against these actions by the President and his staff? Aside from stopping child pornography, this will have obvious implications for the continuing fight on the War on Terror.

    I ask again, who and for what possible reason could anyone not support the President in this matter?

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  3. YUO fAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  4. Re:This isn't news! by c0dedude · · Score: 1, Troll

    Um, it wasn't a subpoena, it was a request. And if companies are just GIVING away personal information, something is seriously wrong.

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  5. Re:Big Brother by Zico · · Score: -1, Troll

    "The Democrats didn't roll that 'stuff' back?" Jesus H. Christ, you do realize that the Democrats were the ones who were carrying out the wiretapping of Martin Luther King, don't you?

    Who has said anything about the War on Terror concerning Google? How does this affect your privacy?

    Congratulations for buying into Soviet Union propaganda, I hear gulags in Siberia made excellent summer vacation resorts, too.

  6. Re:Big Brother by TopShelf · · Score: -1, Troll

    A masterful /. diatribe that's sure to soak up the mod points - heavy on the cynicism and anti-government blather, but ultimately off-topic and full of naivete.

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  7. Personal information isn't involved by Zico · · Score: 0, Troll

    I realize that complete ignorance is a Slashdot hallmark, but the majority of you really need to educate yourselves on this matter.

    The information given out by the other companies, and requested from Google, is completely divorced from any personally identifying data.

    The only privacy issue in this whole thing is the privacy of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the other corproration asked for this data. Since Slashdot readers generally haven't minded the government sticking their noses into other companies' private business in the past, I doubt they'd be so up in arms if they really understood whose privacy was at stake here.

  8. Re:Sore Thumb -- Google Sued! by biocute · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's going to be interesting -- Can Google outsmart the government like Microsoft did, or will the bottomless goverment eventually destroy Google and take over all the logs, or even operate Google as a govermental service?

  9. Of course, you are absolutely correct. by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree completely. It is absurd to think that there should be restrictions on the government’s power. There is no reason whatsoever that the government should not just be able to demand information and property from persons or businesses. Yes, support the President and all that he and his Administration and appointies choose to do without any question or oversight!

  10. Re:If not in size... by slashdotnickname · · Score: 0, Troll

    And by your reasoning how big are MS's?

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/22/13 25258
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/08/31/12 49231


    Well if you'd kindly pull them out of your mouth, we'll measure them.

  11. Re:Sore Thumb by ShaneThePain · · Score: 0, Troll

    yeah and what about 17 year olds like myself? I'd like to have more options than 30 year olds screwing. Im an ephebophile, not a pedophile.

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  12. Re:not only that by jrockway · · Score: 1, Troll

    > Yet, at the same time, the 16 year old (hell, 14 year old) is old enough and mature enough to be tried as an adult and sentenced as an adult.

    Yeah, but this is porn. I mean... boobs!

    Won't someone please think of the children?

    Now excuse me while I go have an affair with a seventeen-year-old.

    (Oh sorry... politicians being hypocritical? Never! )

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  13. Re:Do any Americans actually feel safer? by jmorris42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Well, for one thing, the Clinton Administration shut down two attempts by Arab terrorists to launch an attack on US soil.

    And we can assume a few have been thwarted since 9/11. But we do know Sudan offered Clinton Bin Laden's head on a platter and he said "No thanks."

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  14. Re:About time! by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pick your poison!

    1. Let the government do it's job to stifle terrorist activities (we have yet to have car bombings in this country)

    2. Say "fuck-it" and let dirty-bombs and kamikaze whackos ram 777s into buildings. I mean, it's an "acceptable" act of nature. You know the price of being part of western civilization.

    You cannot have it both ways.

    Personally, I would rather have a legal terrorist-license-to-kill. I'll just pack my gun and slug the first rag-head that wishes to cause trouble. Problem solved.

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