Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Privacy Concerns

Philip K Dickhead writes "The Associated Press is reporting that the Justice Department rejected Google's concerns over a Bush administration demand to examine millions of its users' Internet search requests on privacy grounds. The department claims this will help revive an online child protection law that the Supreme Court has blocked, by proving that Internet filters are not strong enough to prevent children from viewing pornography online. A federal court hearing is scheduled in San Jose, California, March 13th."

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Re:Great Moments in Hypocrisy

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Can the government really go after Google for aiding Chinese censorship and for NOT aiding US censorship AT THE SAME TIME?

Incomparable. What US wants from Google are sample anonymous records to use in law-making.

What China requested (and received) from Yahoo! (not Google) was personally identifying information, which lead to several people being jailed. What China wanted (and got) from Google was censorship of its search results.

The only was you can equate the two censorships (so as to be able to sustain your charge of "hypocrisy" against the US government) is to equate exchanging child pornography with discussing alternative forms of government.

But you already knew that. Sorry to get in the way of your US-bashing...