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	Viacom Backs Off Demand for YouTube Viewers Histories

deadcowkid

10-14-2008 3:50 AM

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deadcowkid says:

This is a huge infringement of our rights. People post political videos to organize protests etc., We should have that right, without surveillance by OUR government!

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10-14-2008 6:57 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

Then there are all us non-Americans. How dare a group of foreigners like Viacom (or Google for that matter), snoop around in OUR business! It's one thing that the US is going fascist, but I'll be damned if they should drag the rest of us down with them.

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