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Suspended Rights? April 17, 2006

Posted by panamared in Uncategorized.
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Here is just an interesting article concerning our right to free speech (1st amendment).  This article describes the people who have suspended our rights the most, starting with President Bush.  The point of the article is to raise awareness that this type of thing is constantly happening in the U.S., even if we are not aware of this.  Our own president is guilty of suspending many, many rights, which goes to show that if he can do it, many other people in power can do it also.  

It is seen in this article that Google has been at the center of a debate.  Google refused to hand over records to the U.S government, which concerned a new law that would protect children from child pornography.  I doubt anyone at Google actually thinks that child porn is beneficial for youths.  They did not want to hand over the information because they did not want any subscriber's information to be compromised.  In fact, I am sure most of the executives at Google are morally against child porn, but not against it enough to suspend their client's rights.  The executives at Google were also scared that if they hand over the records this time, then more intrusive requests will be made in the future. 

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