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Google vs. Utah: State takes flak for its attempts to police Web

April 17, 2007 /

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Law to curb keyword-triggered ads that made Google angry is the latest example

The Utah Legislature has earned a name for itself trying to police the electronic frontier, and it isn’t that of Gunsmoke’s Sheriff Matt Dillon, but his often incoherent deputy, Festus.

"Utah has an unrivaled track record of enacting dumb, regressive, unproductive Internet laws," notes Eric Goldman, director of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute in California.

By Linda Fantin and Glen Warchol
The Salt Lake Tribune

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/technology/ci_5648312