California Bill Would Blur Online Mapping Programs from Planck's Constant

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California Assemblyman Joel Anderson, a Republican idiot, in response to the Mumbai attacks, where it was revealed terrorists used mapping programs to help plot their actions, has introduced a bill that would require all virtual mapping programs to blur out schools, places of worship, government or medical buildings or face hefty fines and possible jail time ¹.

Some day we'll find out that Osama bin Laden used Google search to locate air pilot schools for his men to learn how to fly into the World Trade Center and I suppose this moron will then introduce a bill blurring out the results of any search that could be useful to terrorists.

I have no doubt that Islamic radicals use technology against the West; I have even written an article reporting that by using the Internet, Muslim terror has found a way to advance the spread of Islam even better than with the sword, but I did not suggest we stop using the Internet.

The cause of terror attacks is not technology, but ideologies like Islam. So instead of pushing for laws that restrict our freedoms how about passing laws that stop the spread of Islam? Hey, Assemblyman Anderson, you're from the San Diego-area, how come you haven't done anything to close down the Islamic School of San Diego? The Muslims who blew up the subways in London were UK born and bred Muslim Englishmen, not foreign terrorists. Terrorists do not need Google Earth to locate an important building to blow up, all they need do is ask little Ahmed or Fatima to take a sharp picture of it on their way to that San Diego Muslim school and hand it to Mahmud the Bomber.

Pictures don't kill people. Muslims do.

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Red Orbit, Bill Would Restrict Some Online Mapping Images In California
The San Diego-area Republican said he initiated the bill after learning that terrorists who plotted attacks in Israel and India used mapping services such as Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and Google Earth.
The bill would set restrictions only on images of government buildings, hospitals, schools and places of worship within California, and would not prohibit online images of homes - an issue that has led to privacy concerns and a lawsuit in Pennsylvania.

However, even if Anderson’s bill becomes law, it could be difficult to ban Google, Microsoft and other mapping firms from posting such photographic details online because the images are already in the public domain, and are often posted on the institution's own Web site.