The Justice Department demand for porn search data from the search engines is short sighted and harmful to our country.
Right now, the global Internet is based on U.S. standards, on English and U.S. companies dominate the Internet . The policy of Google to fight the U.S. Justice Department and to accept Chinese search restrictions is consistent with the U.S. staying the dominant force on the Internet.
No country or peoples wants the U.S. government imposing its values on them and certainly not through U.S. global corporations. That is why Google has taken the right stand. I support Google.
Today, as it has been for sixty years, global air traffic is entirely in English and an American aircraft manufacturer is the dominant player. That would not be true if a bureaucratic Justice Department had seized a foreign airliner in 1953 and held it on the tarmac for a week. If the 1953 Justice Department had seized a foreign airliner in 1953, English would not be the sole language of global air traffic and Boeing might not even exist.
What the Justice Department did with its porn search demand, if unblocked by Google, would rapidly destroy the U.S. dominance in the global Internet as people everywhere and their governments seek protection from the megalomaniacal imposition of U.S. values.
Right now I have also wised-up. The Patriot Act should exclude searches of library users. The reasons are weak but the principle has been violated and now I see that all researchers must be protected.