All we have been hearing about since last Friday is the decision regarding the Department of Justice and Google. Brief Background: URLs and search queries were subpoenad by the Department of Justice in order to collect evidence against those providing inappropriate images of children. Google resisted, mainly for the purpose of making a statement, that individual's search privacy will be protected and Google will never give out information compromising that privacy. That's good. However, being a Google fan, I hate to point out amidst all of the celebration that there is a downside to this decision. The United States Government is attempting to find those that are breaking the law and taking advantage of minors. I have long believed that those in a position to fight against things so contrary to morality, should. For example, profile providers such as MySpace, MSN, and Yahoo have always had a responsibility and privilege to work against these things by watching over the content on their profiles and placing safeguards to protect the innocent. I have told Google that I wish, with all of their information and resources, they could do some more good with it and create a filter. Inappropriate sites make something of a webring with each other and no other organization has the information on every link from one site to another as does Google. With a simple program, Google could create a filter that didn't have to scan a page before loading it, but decide to show a page based, not only on content that had been scanned long before, but also on links in and out. The majority of inappropriate sites could be removed this way. Google has the opportunity to do a lot of good and their decision to not work with the government means that it will be more difficult to find those that are destroying lives and adding to the immoral climate plaguing our society.