Spirit

I'm just curious if anyone knows if it is true or not but I once read in the newspaper (the article where Google was being sued or something for not complying) that yahoo and a bunch of other search engines (not includuing google acording to the article) were monitoring what people were searching for or looking up and for lack of better words handing it over to national defense. Does anyone know anymore about this?

kenni

I believe this is true but Yahoo and the rest of the search engines aren't necessarily working for bush. I think it has something to do with tracking down child pornography/paedophilles and such. Try to look it up at Google News.

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Spirit

I'll do that sometime. I hope that would be why the others search engines do that, it's more honorable than spying for our president.

rockout

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I mean rockout

Spirit

that would be a miracle if there were any I.Q. points at all. No offense taken, I definetly agree but woudn't quite use that strong of words.

compuXP

This thread has nothing to do with Bush's presidency or the war in Iraq.

It's about search engine privacy. Should the government know what we're searching for?

The answer, in my opinion, YES. If there's terrorists in our country I sure as heck want them outa here and contained.

I admire Google for sticking strong to their privacy policy, but I think that anybody who uses Google also uses Yahoo and other search engines from time to time. So, it's not too big a deal.

By the way, I'm one of those "lowering % of idiots that still support him".

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rockout

So did you give me an infraction because i posted my oppinion or because i offended you but apologized for offending you?
mmmhm.... dont think im coming back here. i dont support that lower % of peopel

Katey

Hi there,

First of all I agree with compuXP that this thread wasn't for political debates although you do get that time to time, I did it a few days ago infact.


Me too, and I'm British. Nothing wrong with that, people are allowed their own opinion. If it wasn't for Bush we wouldn't still be sure whether IRAQ had WMD's. Now we know a lot more people can sleep at night now.


You sound just like people that terrorise, we live in a democracy and because of that you have the right to say what you just said, and so does compuXP. If it wasn't for us being democracy you would be prosecuted for what you have just said. You get what I'm saying?

Please don't leave because someone has different views, that is being prejudge-mental. compuXP may agree with Bush although he is a pleasant person and he helps people in the forum whenever he can, is that bad?

Anyway people, try to keep this thread back to the point now, I think it is a bit of a dodgy area to touch upon.


Regards,
Kieran Taylor.

Spirit

i didn't mean to cuase such a debate I was only curious if anyone knew if it was true or not that other search engine were doing that. I don't care for bush, true, but that's an oppinion and i don't mean to force it on anyone nor believe that others oppinions should be forced upon anyone else. I was just curious. And honestlt i don't think bush to have a high I.Q. but then again i don't consider myself to have one. so everyone please smile and be happy. I think we can all get along. Right? Peace.

compuXP

Well you *are* flaming other members, and you're taking the thread off topic to a political level, which isn't accepted at iWEBTOOL. There are other sites for politics, but this isn't one of them.

There's no reason to leave, it's just a notice that you need to stop doing whatever you did (as per the infraction system works).

Spirit: Ah, that smiling bunny Funny.

Put short, search engines don't work for our government, most of them just help them fight terrorists and online predators.

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appraisal57

As far as google goes, good for them. I hope none of the search criteria gets in the hands of the goverment. Next thing ya know they will be listening to our calls.

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jumpenjuhosaphat

Ah, the trasition from a free nation to a police state is definitely underway. These types of controls, while some people may agree with them, go against what this nation(USA) stands for. Camera's on the stop lights, police barricading roads to check everyone's background. Privacy is one of the biggest parts of freedom, and with controls injected into our everyday lives, that big part of our freedom is on it's way out the door.

The false flags, the code blues and oranges and reds, was a scare tactic that got American people to give up a big portion of their freedoms.

As far as Big Brother watching over our every move on the internet, what a cop out. By tracking every person in the world's online activities, you don't prevent an online predator from being a child molestor, you prevent him/her from viewing porn. There is a better way of preventing this, and that is to track the websites that are made public that offer such smut, and shutting them down. After that, they should be setting up sting operations, placing councelors in schools, educating parents. They don't have to take away my freedom because they are too lazy to do their jobs without having to control me.

If anyone believes that the only search terms that are tracked are ones that pertain to terrorism and child predators, think again. They won't stop there, every year we lose more and more freedoms, and that's a world I'm afraid to have my children grow up in.

Another example of govenmental control:
Denver, Colorado, the city I live in, just voted for and passed a law making it legal to possess and use marijuana. Now, I don't personally use the stuff, but I do think that it should be legalized. It is far less harmful than cigarettes and alcohol, and the people in the city of Denver want it to be legal. Well, the Federal government turned around and vitoed that legislature, taking away yet another freemdom, the freedom of democracy, the freedom of choice.

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Since when was freedom free to have? We have to fight for it. The government needs to take certain legislation and action at some point to fight for our continued freedom.

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jumpenjuhosaphat

I absolutely agree with that. Absolutely.

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rick

Sorry to join it so late, but I just had to say that I agree with jumpenjuhosaphat 100%. I try to encourage anyone I can to stop using the Main Stream Media and find alternative sources of News on the internet. If most Americans where aware of what is really going on, I think there would be a Nationwide revolt.