You may have heard about Google resisting the absurd justice department porno request:

In resisting the Justice Department, Google, in a written response to the department in October, described the agency’s request as “overbroad, unduly burdensome, vague and intended to harass.”

Google said in that letter that complying with the request would require a “disproportionate amount of engineering time and resources” from Google and could endanger Google’s “crown-jewel trade secrets.”

The Justice Department subpoenaed Google in late August to provide all Web-site addresses that could be located through Google’s search engine and submit a list of all search queries handled between June 1 and July 31. The request was in connection with the department’s efforts to defend the Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 law that has been challenged in the courts. The law is designed to shield minors from exposure to sexually explicit material online.

So if you, like me, are upset about not having your search requests turned over to the federal government in a fishing request for porno searchers, now there’s Patriot Search, a search engine that turns everything over to the feds as a matter of course.

Use Patriot Search!

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