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The request is pointless, really (none / 0) (#19)
by Anonymous User on Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 05:42:07 PM PDT

It's clear that the purpose of this request is to gather some esoteric non-information, but more importantly to eat away at the right to free speech - and it's a foot in the door. Since using search engine data about urls without source IP's is pretty pointless. The real point is to gain a foothold on the data that search engines necessarily need to connect a searcher to their results. The government can't ask for that straight away. But if they get the first part, there's a good chance they can get the other end - the requesting IP's. Frankly, that's really frightening. But where there's government interference, there will rise new products to anonymize browsing. A new market! The Bush government has steadily eroded our rights, has started a stupid and really pointless war (which, by the way we can't walk away from - but guess what? That's exactly he's now proposing), approved warrantless phone taps when a court specifically for granting said warrants exists, and more. I am all behind Google!


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