Google resists feds probe into browsers' behavior

The more society moves away from its own set of standards, the more the door swings open for government to come up with its own well-intention, but poorly executed solutions to problems.
Advocating the positive aspects of kiddy porn is like advocating the positive aspects of cancer. Yet, burning down all traces of personal freedoms is not likely to solve the problem without creating other problems just as damaging to society.
Giving the government an open door to a currently right to privacy-type of tool like "Google" would only work if only ethical people were ever allowed to work for the government. Since there is no place on earth where only ethical people work, any promise from anyone from any political party that government would never abuse any access to privacy given them is hollow and not to be believed.
If, on the other hand, those requesting access to public privacy want to be honest and say " Look, we don't know how to solve this problem following the rules, so we want to break the rules in order to attempt to fix it. By the way, sooner or later somebody will abuse this solution and end up making matters worse than they were before we took the easy way out." Then, at least none of us could complain or act surprise down the road when things went in the dumper.

Please note that the struck-down law was not about "kiddie porn" but about restricting minors from being access anything that the government judged to be unsuitable to be viewed by minors.

I didn't read this particular law but a previous effort, the Communications Decency Act, was just absurd. Among other things, it would have protected children from reading the Bible on line, because of some of the topics addressed having to do with sexuality.