Microsoft defends decision to give up search data

[struggle4progress]

By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service, 01/24/06

Microsoft is on the defensive over its decision to hand over search data to the government, saying the company would never compromise the privacy of its customers ...

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/012406-microsoft-search.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Essence of fascism

Large corporations serving at the mercy of the state.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Every company should tell the government to go fuck itself

I can't believe that they are caving in.

This is clearly, totally, and utterly a) a waste of time, just to begin with, and b) a violation of privacy.

[AX10]

3. Fascism.

[Jacobin]

4. 'we owe bush because he gave up on the anti trust suit'

That is what we have here.

[1620rock]

5. You are 100% right. n/t

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

6. Pay-backs are hell!

[tabasco]

7. The republicans sure got that central government drowned ...

in the bathtub!!

Oh how they wail about the evil federal government when the Democrats are in power.

But the minute they get in, they consolidate power in the central government, reduce the power of the states, and enlarge the federal government more than ever before!

How do the freepers reconcile it when the republicans say one thing and then do another??

I know many republicans who have seen the light about the modern republican party and become independents or (gasp!) Democrats.

The remainder are apparently loyal to their party, not their Nation, to the bitter end. They would have been good brownshirts.

Microsoft should go out of business for this decision. They are lackeys to the government.

[C_U_L8R]

8. The government is a huge MS customer...

and I'm sure they will be richly rewarded
for their support of the fascist empire.

As for me... I support Apple. :-)

[SamuelAlito]

9. They would lose in court anyways

Now that the court is going to be stacked with one more ideologue.

Come see how I plan to run my new domain on my blog

The Right Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
(the A stands for Awesome)