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Google Publishes Censorship Map
Entropy98 writes "Google has released a censorship map showing how often countries around the world request user information and censor services such as Youtube. The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010. Information on China is conspicuously absent."
I heard you like censorship so I censored your censorship map...
World of difference the border between the US and Canada makes.
Yeah, the temperature is like 50 degrees lower.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
Canada ............. 10
Yeah, but that's like 1 for every 10 Canadians.
sic transit gloria mundi
In their FAQ, Google states "the statistics primarily cover requests in criminal matters".
However, we don't let that interfere with our paranoia, or else the Terrorists win.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Temperature's 50 degrees lower just like IQ is 50 points higher.
Weird, the pin for the US is point almost exactly to where I grew up. Almost creepy!
I wonder what they know now that I used to know then, before they erased parts of my memory back in 1989?
Chaina is missing due to a Google bug. They coded it with an INT32, but they really needed an INT64 for China
That's only true on occasion, when it happens to be 72.5 at the US side of the border and 22.5 right over the border in Canada.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
While it's true a government operated CCTV can be found in the homes of most Chinese people, I don't think it is what you think it is.
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace