[governance] RE: Google: government requests to censor content "alarming" +

[michael gurstein]

The Beeb on the same issue...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18479137


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From: michael gurstein [mailto:recent:gurstein at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:32 AM
To: 'governance at lists.igcaucus.org'
Subject: Google: government requests to censor content "alarming"

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/google-government-requests-censor-content-alarming-
122247515--sector.html

Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/749s8qc

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google has received more than 1,000 requests from
authorities to take down content from its search results or YouTube video in
the last six months of 2011, the company said on Monday, denouncing what it
said was an alarming trend.

...

"It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some
of these requests come from countries you might not suspect - Western
democracies not typically associated with censorship," said Chou.
(http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/more-transparency-into-gov
ernment.html)


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