The FBI wants to start monitoring your Google searches.

Not to fight terrorism. Not even to fight child porn. But rather, to fight good, ol’ fashioned, consenual adult porn.

What’s worse, they’re subpeoning Google’s records to defend a law that the Supreme Court had already declared unconstitutional, but gave the government the opportunity to prove could be applied without violating the First Amendment.

In other words, the government wants to snoop in on Americans’ search habits in order to prove that the government can fight porn while still respecting our civil liberties.

Yes, I’m scratching my head, too.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2006 at 9:03 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.