Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

When people feels the need to encrypt their messages there's no free speech.

Your browsing history isn't communicated to anyone and I find it useful on occasion.

Politically, it'll be the same. Look up a few conservative websites, and Google will slowly learn you have Tea-Party sympathies and from then on everything you see will have a Right-Wing slant to it.

We all have a tendency to seek "truth" that tickles our ears. Whether what tickles our ears is actual TRUTH or not is another matter.

It's more than what the search engine thinks you're political bias is, though. I remember when my sister was looking to buy a new car and suddenly I was being served ads for cars as well.

Maybe time for Rockwell to paint a slightly different one...
How naive... mentally, not technically.

An example about Google's tendency to bias things according to your past searches: Several months back, I looked up some stuff for securing freight on my van. Clicked on a few links, looked at some websites. Can you guess what Google Ads serves up to me today on every website I visit that has ads? Yep--- tons and tons of stuff for trucks.

First give dignity back to the people

What?    Is dignity yet another one of those "rights" to be doled out by a benevolent government? A "commodity" to be bartered for votes?
A man loses his dignity by behaving in an undignified manner…

We here in the States are slowly but surely losing the rights we had enshrined in the Constitution, as we give more and more power to the governments-- state and federal, mostly-- over aspects of our lives they had no business in. One of these days we will wake up as serfs to the bureaucrats in Washington and we won't even know how that happened.

Bel, the problem is that government has no interest whatsoever in ensuring human rights. The more "benevolent" the government is, the less interest it has in human rights.

We here in the States are slowly but surely losing the rights we had enshrined in the Constitution, as we give more and more power to the governments-- state and federal, mostly-- over aspects of our lives they had no business in. One of these days we will wake up as serfs to the bureaucrats in Washington and we won't even know how that happened.

Rights that allow you not to have to worry about unwarranted search and seizure. A policeman pulls you over for a blown tail-light, technically he doesn't have the right to just start searching your car. I read too many stories recently where police have done just that, on trumped-up charges that the person they pulled over "might" be involved in the drug trade. Once "drugs" are suspected-- because the police dog was tricked into indicating your vehicle had them-- your rights became history. The police root through your vehicle like hogs, and after they find nothing-- they don't even offer an apology.

not sure if Mericans also using trias politica ..

Rights that allow you not to have to worry about unwarranted search and seizure. A policeman pulls you over for a blown tail-light, technically he doesn't have the right to just start searching your car. I read too many stories recently where police have done just that, on trumped-up charges that the person they pulled over "might" be involved in the drug trade. Once "drugs" are suspected-- because the police dog was tricked into indicating your vehicle had them-- your rights became history. The police root through your vehicle like hogs, and after they find nothing-- they don't even offer an apology.

Right now as I write this, my state representative who is running for re-election is screaming that her Republican opponent, if elected, will cause senior citizens to lose social security, cause children to be tossed off of school buses and cause husbands to beat their wives-- I kid you not.

We just signed over the health-care to Washington.

What do you think will happen the next time we have a government shut-down

You better believe he'll shut down health-care so panicked people will call congress to get congressmen to kowtow to the president. Everything else is on the chopping block, what makes you think that's any different?

So you're all on medicare? I mean, those of you that weren't on VA already.

Bel, the problem is that government has no interest whatsoever in ensuring human rights. The more "benevolent" the government is, the less interest it has in human rights.

We here in the States are slowly but surely losing the rights we had enshrined in the Constitution, as we give more and more power to the governments-- state and federal, mostly-- over aspects of our lives they had no business in. One of these days we will wake up as serfs to the bureaucrats in Washington and we won't even know how that happened.

Right now as I write this, my state representative who is running for re-election is screaming that her Republican opponent, if elected, will cause senior citizens to lose social security, cause children to be tossed off of school buses and cause husbands to beat their wives-- I kid you not.

Me thinks the Democrat party just might have their fingers in too many pies, and maybe I shouldn't be dependent on re-electing a Democrat to be sure I get goodies from government.