Big Brother 9

Autoriteiten haten een vrije uitwisseling van gedachten. Ze kennen maar 1 werkelijkheid, namelijk de officiele versie van de werkelijkheid die ze zelf hebben verzonnen. En dus proberen autoriteiten overal ter wereld greep te krijgen op internet. Zowel de Chinese auoriteiten als de Amerikaanse proberen greep te krijgen op bijvoorbeeld Google. De Amerikaanse columnist Robert Scheer schrijft: 'In case someone in the Justice Department is reading this, let me hasten to explain why I just clicked on the Victoria’s Secret online catalog photo featuring a certain “Very Sexy Lace & Mesh Garter Belt.” AOL made me do it. Yes, the very same AOL that, like Yahoo and MSN, but not Google, has readily agreed to let you government snoops scrutinize the search words and results from its online search engine data archives. If AOL is going to let the government know where I’ve been, it should admit it entrapped me! (Honestly, officer, I heard that perky voice say “You’ve got mail,” and then this ad popped up, and there was this lady in her undergarments, and anyway it was just research.) OK, so for the time being, Bush administration officials claim they won’t try to connect my name, or yours, with the massive raw data they are demanding from the companies with the most popular search engines. Apparently they are seeking evidence to prove that online porn is very popular and easily accessible as part of a last-ditch lawsuit to implement the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, blocked by the courts. I’m not sure that proving the popularity of pornography is going to make the case for censoring it, but the point here today is my extreme discomfort with the Justice Department’s cozy relationship with online giants like Microsoft and AOL, which already know way, way too much about how we as individuals use the Internet. Why should I trust the Justice Department any more than I trust the NSA, which bugs phone calls and scans e-mails without warrants, or Homeland Security, which looks for terrorists by scrutinizing bookstore purchases and library checkouts?' Lees verder: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/google_spying_pornography_20060124