ACLU loses digital copyright battle (News.com)

Posted Apr 12, 2003 14:25 UTC (Sat) by naughty-artkitekt (guest, #10552)
In reply to: ACLU loses digital copyright battle (News.com) by Ebarrow
Parent article: ACLU loses digital copyright battle (News.com)

Hello Edward,

Is it possible that there is more at stake here than just copyright issues? I mean
this: could it be possible that the N2H2 and courts issue are really about being a
testbed for future censorship?

I am pre-supposing (? a word) that something such as this is going on:

-- Either Google and the search engines are all interconnected and pretending to
be independent units or they ultimately filter at some higher echelon such as, well,
Carnivor and Echelon or whatever deeper, black-project secret name they never
revealed (after all, C & E are likely cover story or project names they
predetermined will be "compromised" and "disclosed" to deflect attention from or
minimize attention to the real activity....

--N2H2 and similar engines probably have some non-published, encrypted string
of secret access codes to the search engines. The combination of Search Engine
and Censorship Engine and a Diversion Engine (well, let's not say secede,
"S.E.C.E.D.E" hehe) would be a powerful "triumverate" for corporate,
government, and special interest groups to withhold, reroute, or divert sought-after
information.

I think it's just a matter of a few years before we see corporations clamping down
on slave/sweat labor reports. Assuming every reporter becomes dumb enough to
file articles & photos via satellite and becomes subject to filtration enroute to the
editor's desk.

Anyway, I thought I was onto something, but I am probably not. But, if anybody
can re-focus or expand upon my idea, or make it more K.I.S.S.able, be my guest.

Kind Regards,

David Syes