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I cant agree with the thread here, particularly when what we are realy talking about is abuse of children. I have no problem with consenting adults getting involved in whatever they like, but how can anyone think that it is alright to even use the words "sexual freedom" when a child in involved. Maybe you need to know how important children are, how vulnerable they are, how they are not able to make choices that affect their whole lives. Maybe you should look at those abused before making such statemnts about "sexual freedom". I have and there are too many shattered lives. This is where I get off the bus!!
And Google to allow the kind of government censorship in China, no use of freedom here of any kind, and yet come out on this side of the issue, well it goes to show how unpricipled they are.
i most heartedly disagree. It is parents' responsibility to monitor their children; it is not the responsibility of the federal government to ursurp parental rights or obligations. Children are indeed vunerable and prey to a plethora of monsters in varied guies and places, i do not dispute this. i am a parent and a teacher - i am well aware of the dangers faced by children in our society. However, as we have seen with Bush's recent justifications, when we continue to allow the federal government to negate, step on, and outright steal our civil freedoms, we, as a nation and as a world, set ourselves on a very slippery slope. Once a particular freedom is taken away, do you honestly believe that the government - the US or any other - is going to come back later and say "oops! here, have that right to privacy back, we made a mistake"? i think not.
Additionally, i am the adult in my home. i use my Internet including Google for searches and email on various sites - some innocuous and some not. If my Google use is being monitored, how does the Justice Department know the difference between me - the working, bill paying adult - and one of my children or grandchildren on the net?
Furthermore, as the adult in my home and parent to my children, i
whole-heartedly object to anyone or any entity negating my obligation, responsibility, and right to raise my own children. Yet, as a nation, we continue to come closer to a governmental system that tells what and when we may or may not do any number of things.
Recently, on the news, there was a story about a woman who is suing a cereal company and others because she feels that the character Sponge Bob markets unhealthy products. When i heard this, my first response what "what the %#@*!!!" Who bought the cereal and fed it to the child? Who allows the child to watch television programming of which she obviously disapproves? Who pays for the cable tv so the child has access to the television program? Who, in blaming others, agrees to abdicate her responsibility to care for, monitor, and raise her own child?
Parents, not the government, are responsible for what their children eat, and wear and watch and learn and where and with whom they do these these and everything else - rasing the children of this country is not governed, monitored, or in any way under the purview of the federal government.
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Question is, though, how much pull do they have? I can launch a similar lawsuit if I wanted. The question I am asking you, then, is does anybody actually listen to them when they speak? Or are they like a mouse fart in a hurricane? 
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