Republicans: Mind your own business!

See the San Jose Mercury News for more info in their editorial...

So now the Republican Bush Administration wants Google to hand over 1 million random web addresses from its search records along with the search info users typed into its search engine over a one-week period.

Why? So they can further their crusade against porn.

Right now the government is trying to legally defend the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act. This 1998 law makes it illegal for web sites to post material that is ``harmful to minors'' unless they ensure that only adults can access it. The law, as currently written, could criminalize protected speech like dating and sex advice articles, web sites dealing with reproductive health or gay issues, and even those of some art galleries and bookstores. The U.S. Supreme Court has already cast doubt on its constitutionality.

So basically, we have a Republican Party being ran be religious fanatics that just can't abide to the idea of staying out of people's private lives. So they need to snoop into people's searches and see what kind of things they're querying. All so they can defend a poorly written law to keep sex censored.

And they say they're doing it for the kids. The same kids who can find a liitle of the ultraviolence at the drop of a bowler. We have action movies, computer games, tv shows, and the 6 O'Clock news for that.

...not to mention sports brawls and a war in Iraq. I'm sure they think our kids should be exposed to that.

But when it comes to love, dating, sex, the nude body, and those aspects of humanity?

Not in their America, buddy. These right-wing elitists know what is best, and they will invade your privacy to make sure you comply with the standards of decency defined by their religious-fanatic core.

Then again, I think the Bush Administration is just expressing sour grapes with Google over the search terms "miserable failure" and "worst president ever"