How would the US government show that porn laws aren't working by examining Google searches?
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The unfortunate thing is that the government hopes to learn anything from google.  I have had the opprotunity to view the web stats for several different websites and unless a website is optimized specifically for google they engine isn't very good at finding links.  I hate to say it but the best search engine out there is MSN, even though I can't stand them.\n\nHowever seeing what people are typing in on specific searches looking for "kiddy porn" it might help them gain insight into the underworld of child molestors.  Think of it this way a drug addict can usually pick another drug addict out of the crowd because there are mannerisms that people exude without realizing it.  So from this perspective knowing they enemy better can help them see where the trouble is, hopefully before bad things happen.
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PEOPLE!!!\n\nOur government is NOT intrested on anyones search for a great chicken recepie or shopping or anything a law-abiding citizen searches for.  They are trying to protect us and are looking for terrorist acitivity!\n\nLet me re-phrase your question: Would you be angry if an attack occurred and the details could have led to the prevention if the government had looked at internet activity?\n\nYES!!........People would be whining about that.  So it is a "NO WIN" situation.  Our government is critized for doing and for not doing.  I for one am glad they decided to have people angry and trying to protect me and my family rather than accomodating whiners.  Besides, if you are doing nothing wrong, why do you care?  If I have private informaition that I do not want anyone to know about, rest assured, I will not post on yahoo or google..or any other internet source.\n\nBy the way, I don't think that an internet search is protected anyway.\n\nGood luck and take care.
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no. The internet is too big to make any seriously enforceable law. There's too many users to keep tabs on all of them, a lot of what's objectionable isn't hosted inside your country, so you couldn't prosecute anyway and more than anything: there's so much money invested in the internet, enough to kill regulations stone dead.\n\n...now. Maybe it would be useful to point out that you can catch some of the people who download things, and some of the trollers. But if trolling is illegal in the States, and I troll you from my computer in Fiji, I'm going to get away with it.
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Your OPINION for "les/gay porno" doesn't matter to the authorities as long as the people doing it are legal. By the way, why are you just focusing on lesbian and gay pornography? There's PLENTY more hetero sh*t on the Internet. Why not go after THEM? Loser.
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Bypassing security measures in a government network is a crime. Unless you are attending private school, you are on a government network.\n\nSchools block the pedophile hunting sites for a reason....
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Google's not objecting on the grounds of privacy, but that it would be too labor-intensive. I don't think that the defense they're using is valid, but there are valid reasons to withhold them.
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don't search for porn in the first place.  If you're in Internet Exploiter for Windows, go to the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options...", and delete all files, delete all cookies, and clear history.  If you're using Firefox, Mozilla, or Opera like you should be, then go to the preferences pane and "Clear recent searches" or "Clear search history" or something like that.
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In response to a broad government subpoena, Yahoo turned over material about users' searches without protest, and Google is going to court to fight the subpoena.  (The case had nothing to do with terrorism, rather it is an attempt by the Government to demonstrate that lots of porn is missed by porn filters.)  For that reason, I personally am inclined to ues the Google search engine rather than Yahoo's, as an expression of suuport for Google's stance.
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He'll probably use them to moniter the actions of suspected terroists, pedophiles, and liberals.\n\n>>>could he make arrests?<<<\n\nGoogle searches aren't illegal.  Period.  Even if you google something like "illegal child porn pictures" or "how to blow up buildings," it's not a crime.  That doesn't mean they won't arrest people.  It would never stand up in court, but it's implausible that the current adminstration might arrest people based on searches like the ones above.  However, more like, such searches would simply trigger an investigation looking for more concrete evidence of illegal activites.\n\n>>>what happens to people who use porn and are too young?<<<\n\nQuite frankely, they could care less about kids looking at porn.  The people providing it are guilty of endangering the welfare of a minor (which is crap if you're talking about teenagers going online to look at porn of their own free will), but the kid isn't guilt of anything.  And they are much more worried about people taking porn pictures of little kids than they are about teens looking at adult porn.
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I have to tell you that it isn't "doing" anything.... it can only effect a person if they choose to watch it... I can promise you that I can get through and entire day and never once "have" to look at porn just because it's on the net. Take some responsibility for your own actions and avoid it if you find it offensive, that's what most people do. And for your information if we allow the government the right to censor what we are allowed to see and read, sites like this will be banned... you have to take the good with the bad... you can't have your cake and eat it too.
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What are you talking about?\n\nClearly there are some national security reasons to make some things difficult to locate.  Yes, it is certainly true that national security is sometimes used where it shouldn’t be use.  However the recourse for such actions is public access to records and application can be made for anything.  If the government wants to keep it for only a high security clearance, then it must demonstrate that necessity in a court.\n\nBanning of books generally occurs at the local level in the local school or library.  In both of these situations there is recourse to get such decisions reversed.  A relatively few things should fall under banning acts.  For example, pornographic pictures and writings kept from those who are too young.\n\nWhat specifically are you referring to?  If you listed those it might be easier to join with you if those things have merit.
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Porn is determined by "community standards," so it depends on where you live. Metro Atlanta would probably have no restrictions other than those adopted as federal standards (child, animal, etc.)\n\nAdditional::\n\n"With the exception of child pornography, the legal status of Internet pornography is still somewhat unsettled. The legality of pornography has been traditionally determined by the Miller test, which dictates that community standards are to be used in determining whether a piece of material is obscene. Thus, if a local community determines a pornographic work to meet its standard for obscenity then it could be banned."\n\nSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Internet_pornography
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It is very tricky to answer. Yes it's a hard situation (no pun intended) the learning sites have routes to porn. Remember, the bill of rights was invented with no concept of internet and stuff, to stop the people posting the sites, you might be asking to tamper with our basic freedoms. This is an interesting topic.
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you can't, unless you know the program your donloading from or you do a background check, most adult videos will have them, google videos won't have any, they are extremely strict security
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It starts off with good intentions - after all, who is in favor of people surfing for child porn, or people engaged in terrorist activities.  And everyone who says "I'm not a child molester"  or "I'm not a terrorist - I have nothing to hide" agrees with the government.\n\nThen, the Gov't says, let's use Google Search records to go after drug users.  Still sounds ok to most people, since they say, "I don't sell or use drugs.  I have nothing to worry about"\n\nThen the makeup of the Supreme Court changes, and they make abortion illegal.  The Government decides to use Google Search records to see if people are finding ways to get abortions.  And the Pro-Lifers  say, "that's OK with me - I have nothing to hide"\n\nThe same thing then happens with Gun owners, gays, people of other religions, and on and on - each time, for less urgent reasons.\n\nThen one day the Government decides to use Google Searches to go after anyone who speaks up against the above actions.\n\nDon't believe me?  Stick around for the next 50 years.\n\n\nBenjamin Franklin was asked what form of Gevernment the new United States had created.  His response:  "A Republic - if you can keep it"
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That happened to me once. It didn't look like porn, but some searches that I never made ended up in my IE address history. I live alone so I know that I didn't make them. I would search for viruses, spy ware, whatever. There are a lot of people out there who have nothing better to do than to mess with your sh*t. Sometimes they succeed.
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looking on google usually works