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Cory Doctorow's Fiction About An Evil Google

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the government-search-engines dept.

ahem writes "I saw a link on Valleywag to a story written by Cory Doctorow about what would happen if Google got in bed with the Dept. of Homeland Security. Chilling, well written, but the ending was a bit anti-climactic for my tastes."

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  1. Re:Fiction? by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: 4, Informative

    Section 505, "Miscellaneous national security authorities." Allows for National Security Letters that bypass judicial review. Struck down on April 9th, 2004 by Doe v. Ashcroft. Reauthorized legislation later struck down on September 6th, 2007, by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.

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  2. Re:The ending by julesh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ahem wrote, "... the ending was a bit anti-climactic for my tastes."

    Could it really have ended any other way?

    No, it couldn't. For those who missed the significance, the basic structure of the story was copied from 1984.