Google has just published on its blog, a summary of the requests it received from Governments around the world to remove content from Google or one or more of its operated sites like YouTube.com
The report is for the period from January 1, 2011-June 30, 2011.
As for the US:
“”
- We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove. Separately, we received requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. We did not comply with those requests, which we have categorized in this Report as defamation requests.
- The number of content removal requests we received increased by 70% compared to the previous reporting period.””
You can see the full report here.
Governments around the world are exercising more and more control of the Internet. See Part I of this story at http://NeusNews.com.
People have the right to know how brutal some cops are. Especially the ones at Wall Street.
Just see the latest brutality at Occupy Oakland.
The police began throwing concussion grenades and tear gas directly into the crowd, injuring several nonviolent protesters. Weapons were aimed and fired at people as they attempted to help the injured and bring them to safety.
The video material left me speechless. There is no reason to look towards Lybia and other arab country’s demonstrating for there rights. American people seem to be in the same situation.
With this action, the U.S. has ended what they stand for. Freedom of speech and democracy has come to a end and its running on TV stations world wide.
not surprised at all.
Seems Bob Parson was more succesful to have his ac/dc elephant shooting removed from youtube.
They also mention the almost 6000 “requests for user information” submitted by the US government agencies, 93% of which were granted.
Presumably, these were the result of warrants to access email accounts, but who knows the depth of it all?
Do the statistical math, it means there’s people in your town, right now, not too far from where you’re sitting at this very moment who’s having their gmail account monitored by the government.
Is it you?
They call this report “the transparency report”. I think a few domainers may feel as though they left some stuff out of this “transparency” report. Lol.
what other company with a market cap like goog’s would publish this kind of stuff? fascinating.
not only that, but they provide it in csv format.
goog is far from perfect, but there are obviously some googlers that have a sincere appreciation for data. and i’m thankful for that. +1 for the csv.
however i also subtract a point -1 for eliminating the + operator from search. that is just a bizarre move.
If my embedded youtube videos start falling off my site then I guess I’ll know why…
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