Forgive me for quoting you. You started with "Legally Google is different" so I assumed you wanted to talk law or legislation.

Also, I don't recall comparing Google to smaller organizations.

I may be oversensitive, but when I hear terms like "They are a public resource" I assume you mean that they should therefore be regulated by the government and paid for with tax money.

Forgive me...

I made a flippant comment following this thread of conversation:

> Is this really that different from police asking for security camera footage from a convenience store after a robbery?

> I think legally, Google is no different than any other business.

And when I came back to the thread there was a series of comments parsing my words.

I overreacted to the group and you were the target of that over-reaction.

No prob! This is important stuff.