Maybe Google should just publish the list of 50,000 websites for everyone to see and make up their own minds. How about they just publish all their information on everyone. I think it would be better that everyone be the keeper of everyone else's secrets rather than having one particular group get to keep those secrets for themselves. Someone's been sneaking naked girly pictures on the Web! In fact I even thought about starting a website where people could come and confess to the world. How's that for fun? There actually already is at least one out there.
Why don't citizen journalists start going out taking pictures and camcorder images of everything that everyone else, especially authority figures, are up to? Let's make it all admissible in court, too. Better yet, let's set up websites and just post these delicious videos of intrigue. I think everyone should carry a wire and a video recorder just for the fun of it. Who's with me? Let's make everyone accountable for their actions.
What happens then? It's possible that everyone will judge everyone else. But would that really be so bad? No one will be able to hide their darkness then, and everyone will make their loud opinion known that fill-in-the-blank is wrong. But, in the process I think we will all discover just what right and wrong really is for ourselves. How will you know if you don't go out and find out for yourself after all? Maybe you would like someone else, like the Church, to tell you.
What about all those people with something serious to hide? Well, they are only hiding from themselves anyway, so it's just the universe's way of straightening out the liars. Someone has to make them accountable, and what better way to make someone accountable than by giving them a mirror. Right to privacy? What happens in Nantucket, stays in Nantucket. Well, not if you're online.
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.
Article comments
1 - just me
"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.
2 - Just Chris
Doh! Correction upcoming soon.
3 - Dave Nalle
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
4 - Larry Hosken
"setec astronomy" "too many secrets"