Judge to Google: No More Secrets
Published March 19, 2006
But what if the government starts spying on people for looking up information about how to grow pot? Well, maybe it's time you voted the jerks out. Maybe it's time you started learning that the government cannot tell you what to do in the privacy of your home if what you do doesn't harm anyone else. You've avoided taking responsibility for changing the way government works, so now they have conveniently given you an opportunity to see what happens when you let others decide what is right for you and let them get away with it. So are you going to let them get away with it? Take charge of your world and your freedom, and stop avoiding your responsibility to change that world for the better. How many of you even voted last year? Even that isn't near close to what true citizenship stands for.
And in another way, we might realize when everyone is spying on everyone else that it doesn't really matter what people think of you, so you can be free to be who you are wherever you are so long as you harm none. Now you've faced your fear, and it turns out, it was your fear of letting others know who you are and accepting the consequences that comes with just being yourself.
You see, it's easy to take responsibility for yourself once you understand that what people think of you has nothing to do with you at all. Instead, who you are is defined by what you choose to do with the time you have. Now go out there and take responsibility for changing your world and stop blaming everyone else, including the government for what happens. The body of the people are the root of government, and a free country starts with active citizenship based on personal responsibility. When there are no more secrets, we have to take responsibility for our world, because the truth is that we only used the lies and secrets to avoid the responsibility of creating our own freedom to begin with. Once again, it was ourselves we were hiding from.
- Judge to Google: No More Secrets
- Published: March 19, 2006
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Culture: Society
- Writer: Just Chris
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Doh! Correction upcoming soon.
A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over 50,000 web addresses to the government, in an effort to fight child pornography according to the Feds.
You have some good general points in your article, but this initial statement is not correct. All Google is providing the feds with is tracking information on the browsing trends of their users, no specific user information and nothing personal on the users.
The current administration is very much pro internet privacy - one of their limited number of good positions.
Dave






"A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over all its search information for 50,000 web addresses to the government, in an effort to fight child pornography according to the Feds."
Maybe you should re-read the ruling. The judge ordered nothing of the sort. He ruled that Google must produce a sample of 50,000 web addresses from its index to the government, but specifically ruled that is does NOT have to produce any search queries related (or unrelated) to these addresses. After that ruling there's no privacy issue in this case.