Date: 01/20/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: yahoo, google

To whomever was asking about boycotting Google addesses, I thought of that post when I saw this.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_hi_te/google_records



This, is a frightening thing, even though it's been going on for a long, long time now. Because if the public is aware that the government wants to try and strong-arm even "random" "unidentifiable" information, then they'll be that much more paranoid about searching for information -- after all, what someone may think is innocuous, this administration might well be paranoid, themselves, about. And the more frightened people are about looking up what they need or want to know, the more they'll end up coming to rely on what the readily acessible media feeds them. Deliberate or not -- and honestly, I don't have enough faith in the current government to suspect ZOMG A CONSPIRACY! -- this has the real potential to not end well at all.





Cross-posted to ubergeeks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/866149.html