Politics: The DoJ vs. Google

Bumper Sticker: 'If you're not infuriated, you're not paying attention.'

I'm not big into politics. The only thing I care about the left wing or right wing is that it's dipped into the succulent Ranchilada sauce (Wild Wing). But I think the Bush administration is going overboard on this one. In an effort to help safeguard children from accessing pornography, Bush and company want Google to surrender logs of how pornography appears in web searches. For example, ideally a search for 'hot chicks' should return a link for poultry and not Brianna Banks. For one thing, this would probably reveal Google's innovative, heavily-guarded search algorithms.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for a safe internet.. but somehow I feel there's a sinister motive behind this subpeona for information. Maybe it's just the conspiracy theorist in me. Or maybe it's because I've kept up with the news recently. This subpeona for information from Google comes a few weeks after the NSA wiretapping fiasco. What the hell is going on here? It's like ol' George and Dick wake up each morning and challenge each other to see who can disregard the Constitution (read as: Essence of this country) the most. What ever happened to the days of politicians just getting their fulfillment in illegal activities by choking strippers? Oh Hell, here we go..

"Well Dev, I guess you forgot about 9/11.."

Nope, I sure haven't. I remember first seeing what happened on a tv in the lobby of the Darla Moore School of Business. I remember being glued to CNN and Reuters for 12 hours straight. Actually, I don't even want to get into all that.

Does anyone remember the 90s? Remember having faith in the government. I hate watching the news now. I hate that I instictively wonder what cover-up or scandal each news story is about.

I find it amusing that we quickly disagree with oppressive governments in other countries, yet there is little anger when our liberties are disregarded. Interestingly, it took a subpeona of Google archives to make me write something. I guess I don't like people messing with one of sexiest, innovative tech companies of our time (Apple is a distant second). Anywho, it's not a real big deal.. the Department of Justice tried taking on Microsoft and failed. I doubt they'll fare much better with Google.