http://www.googletutor.com/2006/11/22/naughty-google-finds/ Your how-to guide for Google with Google tutorials, tips for using Google and advice. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.googletutor.com/2006/11/22/naughty-google-finds/#comment-39037 Armchair Anarchist Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:21:10 +0000 http://www.googletutor.com/2006/11/22/naughty-google-finds/#comment-39037 While all this is true, and will likely be jumped on again sometime soon by the asshats who believe that curtailing our freedoms is the best way to defeat the nebulous and unmeasurable threat posed by an abstract noun ("the internets are a tool of terror, we must ban it immediately!"), it is well worth remembering that all this information and much more can be found on the shelves of any decent public library with relatively little expense of effort. Access to information is not the problem; root causes and motivations for misusing that information are a much more serious issue, one that gets conveniently ignored by politicians looking for a good slice of self-aggrandisement. While all this is true, and will likely be jumped on again sometime soon by the asshats who believe that curtailing our freedoms is the best way to defeat the nebulous and unmeasurable threat posed by an abstract noun (”the internets are a tool of terror, we must ban it immediately!”), it is well worth remembering that all this information and much more can be found on the shelves of any decent public library with relatively little expense of effort. Access to information is not the problem; root causes and motivations for misusing that information are a much more serious issue, one that gets conveniently ignored by politicians looking for a good slice of self-aggrandisement.

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