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Originally Posted by Mr.Fiction
The article is confusing.
The government seems to be mixing two things - trying to stop underage people from accessing adult websites and "child porn".
When a 17 year old kid looks at a dirty picture on the internet, that has nothing to do with some sick or evil person taking pictures or abusing an underage person for sex (child porn).
Which one are they saying that the Google results that they are illegally trying to get ahold of will be used for?
One of the problems with the government is that anytime they want to censor legal content, the first thing they start doing is yelling "child porn" even if it has nothing to do with the actual action they are taking.
If Google doesn't turn over all of their private search records to the government, then it proves they are supporting "child porn"! If you run an adult website, you support "child porn"! If you don't vote for Bush, you are supporting "child porn"! If you don't support the Iraq war, you support "child porn"! It's almost as bad as the "terrorism" bullshit.
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That sums it up.
Plus they will be getting information on citizens from other countries I assume. Let's not stop at violating the civil rights of our own people, spread it around.
For their case, I believe the information is generally available without a lot of effort. Link and keyword popularity is available from google without a court order. If it is my personal information they want, they can hack away at my computers like every one else does.