Friday, August 10, 2012

Google: Number of Government Requests to Censor Internet Data is 'Troubling'

The Internet may have changed forever the way information is shared and consumed, but what has not changed is the fact that government agencies around the world go to great efforts to censor information. Google, which has now requests the Government to remove some links and YouTube videos, said he saw over the last two years has been nothing short of "alarming".

"When we started publishing this data in 2010, we have also added notes to some of the most interesting stories behind the numbers," said Google in a blog. "We realized that government agencies of different countries, sometimes ask us to remove the political content that our users have posted our services. We hoped that this was an aberration. But now we do not know. "

In particular, Google is concerned about the number of applications it receives final on political discourse.

"It is alarming, not only because freedom of expression is in danger, but because some of these requests come from countries that could not suspect - the Western democracies are not generally associated with censorship. " He says Google


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