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EU To Monitor All Internet Searches
Xemu writes "The European Parliament is issuing a written declaration about the need to set up an early warning system to combat sexual child abuse. However, the substance of the declaration is to extend the EU data retention directive to search engines, so that all searches done on for example Google will be monitored. If you are a citizen concerned about the right to privacy and freedom on the Internet, you can help by sending e-mail to the MEPs from your country and explaining the issue to them."
Yeah, i'd say this is a good opportunity to dust off my gopher skills.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
If you're not doing anything wrong, I don't see why you wouldn't want to let the government see what you're doing. In this post-9/11 world, we *have to* to give up some of our personal priveleges, or else the terrorists will win. The sooner we get remove the word "freedom" from the dictionary, the sooner everyone will stop whining.
Mod this AC up. Channels through which child pornography passes are almost certainly outside the reach of simple monitoring of Google searches.
I think you forgot to check the "Post Anonymously" button...
I know there are those who hype the child porn issue to such an extent that you are labeled a pedo if you post anything less than an extremist attack on child porn, but I'm not so concerned about those people that I need to be anonymous in order to speak out against what I see as retardation incarnate.
Clearly you aren't thinking of the children.
The stories and info posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only fools would take it as fact.
No they won't.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Now, _usually_, when someone takes a stand against the think-of-the-children brigade, and members of said brigade respond with "Do you want our children molested? In fact, you probably ARE a pedophile YOURSELF!", I consider their argument the basest form of political dishonesty.
Fuck the EU and fuck the children.
In this case, though, I kinda see where they're coming from.
Clearly you aren't thinking of the children.
Well I AM...
DoH!
just send an e-mail to your mom, they'll read it too.
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I'd google it for you, but i don't want to be flagged a Nazi.
or the article it's sourced from, so I decided to do a little research on my own to see if this story is true. So I searched google news for the subject matter and what I found was... ... oh wait a second, just a minute someone's at the door.
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