I predicted a few years ago that the Bush administration would attack the internet. As many know it is the last frontier for freedom of speech. I wrote and released a song about it called "Bitten". I KNEW they would use child porn and terrorism. Child porn has been fought for years and much ground has been won. That fight was from concerned citizens. Here we go people, this is the biggest fight for our freedom. This will be the last stand. BOYCOTT all the companies who turned over their records When this fight starts they will attack the liberals by saying that they are for child abuse. We need a plan and fast.. Murdock recently bought huge chunks of the net.
Charles Miller, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said on Thursday that three Google competitors in Internet search technology - America Online, Yahoo and MSN, Microsoft's online service - had complied with subpoenas
in the case.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
The government's motion calls for Google to surrender the information within 21 days of court approval.
Although the government has modified its demands since last year, Google said Thursday that it would continue to fight. "Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and their demand for information overreaches," said Nicole Wong, Google's associate general counsel, referring to government lawyers. "We intend to resist their motion vigorously."
Philip B. Stark, a statistics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who was hired by the Justice Department to analyze search engine data in the case, said in legal documents that search engine data provided crucial insight into information on the Internet.
"Google is one of the most popular search engines," he wrote in a court document related to the case. Thus, he said, Google's databases of Web addresses and user searches "are directly relevant."
As for Google's rivals, MSN declined to speak directly to the case but released a statement saying it generally "works closely with law enforcement officials."
Mary Osako, a Yahoo spokeswoman, said the company complied with the subpoena "on a limited basis." And Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for AOL, said that company gave the Justice Department a generic list of anonymous search terms from a one-day period.