U.S. Government Wants Google Search Records 917
JimBridgerBowl writes "According to the San Jose Mercury News, The Bush administration wants access to Google's huge database of search queries submitted by users to track how often pornography is returned in results. This information would be used for Bush's appeal of the 2004 COPA law, targeted to prevent access to pornography by children. The law was struck down because it would have restricted adults access to legal pornography. Google is promising to fight the release of this information." From the article: "The Supreme Court invited the government to either come up with a less drastic version of the law or go to trial to prove that the statute does not violate the First Amendment and is the only viable way to combat child porn. As a result, government lawyers said in court papers they are developing a defense of the 1998 law based on the argument that it is far more effective than software filters in protecting children from porn."
The solution is obvious! (Score:5, Funny)
Miserable failure (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The solution is obvious! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did I miss something? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Results are in (Score:5, Funny)
Duh, the NSA will tell them (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, the NSA has a full profile on you to cross-reference.
-Eric
Re:Protecting the children from free speech (Score:5, Funny)
That only works if he can read.
-Eric
Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score:2, Funny)
Results 1 - 10 of about 271,000,000 for "bush " (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The solution is obvious! (Score:5, Funny)
Silly rabbit, we're at war! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, not if the president orders it, dummy. Thank God we here in the U.S. has a leader with the courage to come out and say "I am above the law as long as this war, which will never end, goes on."
I only wish he would take the next logical step and declare that presidential elections in a time of war could make us vunerable, and therefore they must be indefinitely suspended until we defeat terrorism.
-Eric
Re:The solution is obvious! (Score:4, Funny)
The solution is obvious! Let's all submit pornographic requests to Google.
...and make sure that they all hit either goatse or tubgirl on the first link! That will make sure that the screeners go blind, solving the problem.
Jenna and Barabra gone wild (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No one "protected" me (Score:4, Funny)
How is this possible with the pages all stuck together?
Re:The most important part is missing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Miserable failure (Score:4, Funny)
Compared to the last two Presidential Administrations, this has been quite a success.
Before anybody mods this as a troll, I am directly replying to a modded up comment. Modding me down for simply disagreeing with your opinion is mod abuse.
Re:Miserable failure (Score:5, Funny)
Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" using "Failure" [google.com]
Re:The solution is obvious! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Porn for dummies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Results are in (Score:4, Funny)
Mr. Bush, I know you didn't do too good in school, but go to hxttp://al4a.com. That is the best start for a variety of porn. It is even has it categorized into the misleading url hxttp://al4a.com/movies.html where you can pick from 51 different categories in either pictures (if you net connection is already too clogged from CARNIVORE) or movies. You have the complete variety from teeny girls, gay sex. bi sex, fat girl sex (Clinton!!!), BSDM, tranny porn, midget porn, redheads, brunets, big titties, little titties, big cocks, the who 9 yards (the cocks are not that big though).
What is the big deal with porn? Its great. Watching professionals have sex is many times cheaper, better and safer than picking up the drunk girl left at the bar right after last call.
Porn stars are often very intelligent, humble, and adjusted people. Listen to them talk in an interview.
Actually, I would rather have Ron Jeremy in the Whitehouse over you.
What else do you want to know?
(Since when did slashdot start autolinking http://whatever.com/thingies? [whatever.com]).
Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score:5, Funny)
Mistakenly converting to an integer? ;)
Re:Miserable failure (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No one "protected" me (Score:4, Funny)
Have women changed then? Granted, it's been a while since I saw one close up, but I was kinda hoping they'd be sufficiently similar next time so I'd know which bits to do what to, and stuff!
Re:The solution is obvious! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If there were no logs of searches... (Score:2, Funny)
We'll just add the search fee to your taxes this year.
Re:Wow (Score:3, Funny)
Years ago, I worked for a school. The school used an ISP which provided a proxy service to filter out (amongst other things) porn. Thing is, the proxy was fantastically unreliable. Quite often, you'd find things getting through which clearly shouldn't.
Now, the only way to report this was to phone their helpdesk. Incoming email - including mail sent to their helpdesk - was also subject to a filter. So you couldn't email saying "www.sex.com isn't filtered" because the email itself would be filtered for the word "sex".
The icing on the cake was the people employed on the helpdesk were under strict instructions that if a customer was to say or do anything construed as being remotely offensive (such as direct them to a porn site or utter any vaguely sexual phrase), they were to terminate the call. Furthermore, they wouldn't accept that there could be anything wrong with their systems unless presented with irrefutable evidence.
A typical conversation therefore went like this:
Me: Hi, I'd like to report an issue with your filtering system.
Them: Sure, what's the problem?
Me: It doesn't appear to filter anything.
Them: Yes it does.
Me: No it doesn't. Here, I'll give you an example.
Them: OK.
Me: Are you behind the filter now?
Them: Yes
Me: OK, type "lesbian spanking XXX" into Google.
Them: That is offensive and I am terminating this call. <CLICK>
Me: Hello, I'd like to report an issue with your filtering system.
Them: What's the problem?
Me: It doesn't appear to filter anything.
Them: Yes it does.
Me: No it doesn't. Here, I'll give you an example.
Them: OK.
Me: But understand that from now on this conversation is going to contain a lot of potentially offensive stuff, so I please don't cut the call off.
Them: That's OK, I understand.
Me: Right, type "lesbian spanking XXX" into Google.
Them: Er... I don't think I should do that.
Re:Results are in (Score:4, Funny)
Why do I get links to a high school orinthology club?
Porn for some, small crosses for others (Score:2, Funny)
This is a common problem when dealing with people. They piously clamor for what they're supposed to want. Just imagine the improvement in governmental service if our legislative technimicians could see what people really want.
Re:Miserable failure (Score:5, Funny)
Of course there is. The moral axis is defined by good, neutral, and evil, while the ethical axis is lawful, neutral, and chaotic.
Re:The solution is obvious! (Score:5, Funny)
People can look for Dick porn, too.
Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Miserable failure (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Miserable failure (Score:5, Funny)
Plus, anyone who mods you as a troll is unpatriotic, unamerican, and quite possibly a terrorist/child pornographer.
Re:No one "protected" me (Score:3, Funny)
Anyway. Nowadays I'm the one protecting my parents from such things, so that they can't browse or read my collection.