Google flip flops on personal freedoms

Google is standing firm on privacy—this time. Seems the Bush administration wanted Google to turn over records of millions of search requests made during a particular week as part of its "effort to restore online child protection laws that have been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court." Sounds like potential privacy invasion to me.

That's great that Google is standing up to Bush on this issue, but before we go gaga over Google's lofty sense of ethics I seem to recall Google caving in to China's demands for the removal of a number of activist Websites banned by China's government from its search engine.

Having said all that, I still use Google. Sigh.