[at-l] OT: For the "Google Rocks" Crowd

[nightwalker.at at gmail.com (Nightwalker)]

> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/13657303.htm
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> Steve
> http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html
>

I'm not seeing the problem here, Steve.
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The government argues that it needs the information as it prepares to once
again defend the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act in a
federal court in Pennsylvania. The law was struck down in 2004 because it
was too broad and could prevent adults from accessing legal porn sites.

However, the Supreme Court invited the government to either come up with a
less drastic version of the law or go to trial to prove that the statute
does not violate the First Amendment and is the only viable way to combat
child porn.

As a result, government lawyers said in court papers they are developing a
defense of the 1998 law based on the argument that it is far more effective
than software filters in protecting children from porn. To back that claim,
the government has subpoenaed search engines to develop a factual record of
how often Web users encounter online porn and how Web searches turn up
material they say is ``harmful to minors.''

The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed
to release the information, but not Google.