Are ACLU a force for good 👍 or for bad 👎 in your view?

We Must Combat Child Pornography Without Abandoning Online Privacy

By Chris Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

May 26, 2011 | 12:56 PM

Sexual abuse of children is deeply evil, not to mention criminal. It harms children to an almost unfathomable degree. Child pornography commercially exploits that harm, exacerbating the initial crime. Unfortunately, terrible crimes can sometimes lead to law enforcement excesses in battling them.Yesterday, Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) introduced H.R. 1981 the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011." Section four of this legislation would impose sweeping requirements on internet companies, forcing them to keep records on their customers for 18 months — impacting millions of individuals who have no connection to the sexual exploitation of children whatsoever. It doesn't have to go down like this.This is serious threat to our privacy. The ACLU has long been concerned about companies that follow us around the web and track our viewing habits for the purposes of advertising. They use this tracking to build personal profiles about us that can be widely shared. Forcing companies to retain data for long periods would bolster this practice. It would also make it much easier for the government to track everything we do online. No company would be able to promise not to record your visit — that would be barred by law. Respect for your anonymity online would be a thing of the past.------------Spend a minute to look things up before spouting utter ignorant crap.

I think they are a communist anti American organization.

I strongly doubt your claim about CP.  ACLU has been a force for good for decades.

ACLU is just another left wing org. bent on changing the country from constitution to a communist he((whole.

Look up their founder for a start.

They specialize in taking state cases into Federal court where the Feds have no jurisdiction to even hear the case. This is the first step to transferring powers from the states to the central government (called socialism).

Whats happening is the 10th amendment is slowly being erased. It was meant to be the biggest clause in the document.

I've seen no proof to back-up the child porn rumor.  As for the ACLU itself, there are a few issues that I don't agree with them on.  However, I think that they're basically a good organization that means well.  

They have ceased to be any force for good when they gave up defense of free speech.