DoJ didnt just subpeona Google
So, remember a few weeks back when the Department of Justice subpeona’d Google to get user information and search records to see what people were searching for? Ya know, all in the name of “child protection?”
well, great news, it wasnt just google that got the government request for information.
36 companies in all, MOST of which turned over your records.
It turns out that a total of 34 companies received governmental inquiries. Among them were EarthLink, LookSmart, AT&T, Comcast, Symantec, Verizon, Bell South, Cox Communication, and Time Warner.
Do business with one of those companies? good news, the DoJ has your name in their database to be queried for potential violations of the child online protection act.
read more about it here: Department of Justice wants to know your surfing habits
this has prompted me to invent a time machine and go back in time to before george orwell’s death and talk to him about current events. He has sent forward in time this letter.
Dear Modern Day America,
Holy fuck are you serious? did you not read my book? I MEAN I REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS JUST SOCIAL PARODY FOR FUCKS SAKES I DIDNT THINK IT WOULD ACTUALLY START HAPPENING.
SERIOUSLY HOW CAN YOU LET YOUR COUNTRY DO THIS TO YOU????
HOLY SHIT.
I quit writing forever.
Sincerely,
George Orwell
sad day. 
April 5th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Welp I’m fucked. Time Warner got their claws in me. I hope they don’t find my stash.. fuck it I’ll smoke it all up before they get here.
Keep your eyes on big brother. He’s a watching you!
April 5th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Yup… it was bound to happen someday. The thing is most people are to into their so-called-lives to actually sit up and take notice and react to what is going on.
You can yell all you want about it, people may get riled up for a bit then look at their watches and say “ooo! American Idol is on! Gotta go…”
April 5th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
[…] My main man Boogie posted this today: Do business with one of those companies? good news, the DoJ has your name in their database to be queried for potential violations of the child online protection act. […]
April 6th, 2006 at 6:56 am
Hey Boogie, have you seen V for Vendetta yet??? Fucking amazing… check it out!
April 14th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Don’t you fucking dare try and pre-empt what george orwell would say to you yank pricks. He wouldn’t even give you the time of day.
April 15th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Alan Burnett,
here is a great idea. go fuck your self you nationalistic prick
April 20th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
[…] The one short blog that grabbed my attention was the titled, DoJ didnt just subpeona Google. I feel it relates to the topic of this weeks lecture dealing with protecting children on the internet. The blog discusses that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Google as well as many other companies to receive information of what people and users were searching for. Other companies that were searched were Earthlink, Time Warner, Bell South, and Verizon. This is about all the blog says. The blogger goes into a fake letter that George Orwell wrote stating how this is a big mistake and that it is a sad day in our history. Basically the blogger’s feelings on this governmental action is that anyone who has searched these sites can now be traced by the government and could be in violation of the Child Online Protection Act. I really do not believe that anyone would be in violation if one was simply searching for porn. What would be an obvious violation would be if someone was searching for child pornography. Whether the government is invading our privacy or not child pornography is illegal and violations should be administered regardless. So basically, unless you have looked up child porn there is no reason to worry about the Department of Justice being able to view what you search on the net. Although you may think that what you search is embarrassing it really does not matter. The government does not personally know who you are nor are they going to laugh and make fun of you because you searched porn. These precautions are more likely to target sexual predators as well as consumers, producers, and distributors of child pornography. […]