http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_416321.htmlWe've just had it up to our eye sockets with the Bush administration's crusades against privacy. Its attack on the Oregon assisted-suicide act -- the law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court -- asserted a species of government ownership of every citizen's body.
Now, the Justice Department is trying to compel Google, the No. 1 Internet search engine in the United States, to turn over records so feds in Puritan hats may find out how often children can get into porn sites. The data submitted would not personally identify the user, we are told.
This is not a criminal investigation, but is an effort, the federal government says, to bolster its case for the Child Online Protection Act, whose enforcement is suspended. The U.S. Supreme Court declared the law problematic in 2004 and returned the case to a lower court for a determination of its constitutionality.
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Do the Feds think the public is stupid? How can they tell if it's Curious Georgette or Dirty Daddy doing the looking?