caine - 9:16 am on Mar 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

In addition to American Online, MSN, and Google, the government has demanded information from at least 34 Internet service providers, search companies, and security software firms

can't they look it up on the web? looks like an attack on free-will/speech/expression / or is it alternately protecting children (sounds like - bull and more like an attempt by the US gov to get deeper into everyone's activities/information (BIG BROTHER) so they can spy on the populus).