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Google Publishes Censorship Map

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the finger-pointing-is-fun dept.

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."

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  1. Yo dawg by selven · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard you like censorship so I censored your censorship map...

  2. Re:Dupe by Abstrackt · · Score: 4, Funny

    World of difference the border between the US and Canada makes.

    Yeah, the temperature is like 50 degrees lower.

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  3. Re:Biggest democracies, biggest culprits by glwtta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Canada ............. 10

    Yeah, but that's like 1 for every 10 Canadians.

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  4. Re:Dupe by treeves · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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