It's none of the government's Goddamn business

I am so busted. I just know it.
In the news now is the fight between Web search engine giant Google and the Bush Administration. Google is ignoring a federal subpoena to turn over a week’s worth of search information to the government (Yahoo, those fucking pukes, already have acquiesced, as has MSN - so don’t use them, ever) so they can see what people are searching for.
The government wants a list all requests entered into Google’s search engine during an unspecified single week — a breakdown that could conceivably span tens of millions of queries. In addition, it seeks 1 million randomly selected Web addresses from various Google databases.
Obtaining the subpoenaed information from Google “would assist the government in its efforts to understand the behavior of current Web users, (and) to estimate how often Web users encounter harmful-to-minors material in the course of their searches,” the Justice Department wrote in a brief filed Wednesday.
OK, first, it’s none of the government’s fucking business what we search for.
Second, Google is the largest single purveyor of porn on the Internet (ironically, when they burst on the scene in 2004, Google's motto was “Do no harm”) .
Not that I look at porn on the Internet (I don't. Really).
But yeah, we did have fun at work one day putting in names into Google’s image database (safe filter off) just to see what we’d come up with.
Type in female and you get all sorts of nekked women (ditto for male). Type in sex and you’ll get an eye-full (third-most requested image is a chick with a dick, so go figure).
Sure, it’s immature, but we started putting in ex-girlfriend’s and ex-wives first names. Type in just about any woman’s name and - you guessed it - nekked pictures.
We snorted and giggled our way through other words as well (anatomically correct names).
Then the novelty wore off.
And I just know, if Google finally bends to the will of Bushie, that will be the week they’ll pick to give their records to the government.
I use Google every single day (for noble reasons, purely). I have installed on my browser the Google search bar. It keeps a history of what you search for. Yesterday, for example, I searched for “Nordic combined history,” “Italian Alps,” “Ish Monroe,” “Mike Iaconelli,” “Italy plug adapters,” “biathlon history” and “biathlon events,” just to name a few.
They won’t pick this week to give to the government, I just know it. It’ll be the other week, which also just happened to be the week our computer tech came over to my desk _ and as a joke _ Googled butt.
Just try it for yourself and see what you come up with (ohhhh, it’s very bad).