| > | | | | with a fight or flight reaction. This is brought on |
| What is it? A modern battle between a private | | | | by adrenaline releasing reserve sugars from the |
| corporation and the government. Or something | | | | liver and the promotion of other stress hormones. |
| more primal. It is the ancient battle of the Garden | | | | Without the real threat that our ancestors once |
| of Eden between safety/comfort and Freedom. | | | | had of lions, tigers, or bears; we are left in a |
| Google has stood up against the United states | | | | hovering position. Our bodies have not evolved to |
| justice Department in its attempts to gain access | | | | a new situation of perceived threats from |
| to its users search histories. The US Justice | | | | abstract ideas like specters of bogeymen and the |
| department claims it is for a study on eliminating | | | | fear of loss of job or home. Under these situation |
| internet crime with Child pornography as its main | | | | we revert back to more primitive thinking survival. |
| target. It is a no brainer by the average American | | | | Our comfort and security thresholds over that of |
| to wish child pornography to be eliminated. But | | | | our personal freedoms. |
| should it be done without no oversight to | | | | Until a homestatis of these two primal concerns, |
| government as is done now with the battle | | | | we will look towards group protection. Here we |
| against terrorism. The other major search engines | | | | will give up personal identity in fear we would be |
| including MSN and yahoo already complied. Google | | | | removed from the wagon train circle and thrown |
| alone has denied them access on grounds of the | | | | headlong into the wild charge of Indians. If we |
| privacy of its users and trademark infringement. | | | | show any opposition to the alpha decisions that |
| Granted as a SEO, I would love to get under the | | | | the group is following. If this perceived stress |
| hood of the algorithms at Google to get higher | | | | could be sustained, our more modern sense of |
| SERP results. But I support their stance on | | | | freedom that arose from agricultural surplus |
| privacy. | | | | creating specialization in trades, crafts, and arts |
| Already in previous cases against P2Ps, like | | | | can be suspended indefinitely. Which many of us |
| Napster, have blocked access to the Justice | | | | will be accustomed to as we backed down years |
| departments wish of placing real names to IP | | | | ago in response to real or potential fear of our |
| addresses (an address internet providers like | | | | fathers or mothers removal of comfort and |
| comcast assign to your computer on open | | | | security. Raise your hands, how many of you |
| accounts. | | | | gave up basket weaving to become |
| ) This ruling could be a back door to those cases. | | | | Lawyers?Leading to such things as the removal |
| So be careful downloading those Britany pics and | | | | of habeas corpus in the north during the Civil War |
| songs! But be careful in libraries, for under the | | | | by Lincoln, the interment of Japanese citizens in |
| Patriot act your web searches and Library check | | | | WWII, blackballing during the red scare, and the |
| outs are public knowledge to the Justice | | | | removal of American soldiers from international |
| department and the various intelligence agencies | | | | law the day before September 11 2001. |
| of our government. In fact it is treason for a | | | | Jefferson warned with the creation of the first |
| librarian to warn you that you are being | | | | standing federal army under Adams that once |
| monitored. So be careful with your searches for | | | | you ask for more protection from a federal body |
| religious difference, opinions, and politics. Not a | | | | to expect limitations to personal freedoms of its |
| good time to study the differences between the | | | | citizens in accordance to. |
| two Semitic groups and their differences on | | | | But is not our personal freedoms necessary for |
| religion. | | | | our survival as well. If it was not we would not |
| This basically boils down to the basic equation of | | | | have intraspecies conflicts. Or politics for that |
| comfort/security to freedom. | | | | matter? |
| With certain perceived stressors our body reacts | | | | |