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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. Trust? by nurb432 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chinese officials consider censorship demands to be state secrets so we cannot disclose that information at this time," said Google.

    So tell me why we should believe anything they say?

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  2. Re:Dupe by vux984 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    5 months ago it didn't have data for the first six months of 2010. ;)

  3. This doesn't make sense at all. by d474 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When the Government asks Google for information about a user, how is that "censorship"? It may be a violation of privacy, but it's not censorship unless Google admits that the government then used that information about the user to censor their online activities. Of course, I did not RTFA. I prefer to censor myself ;P

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  4. Re:Biggest democracies, biggest culprits by Experiment+626 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If a democratic government doesn't like what you are looking at online, they take it down.
    If a totalitarian government doesn't like what you are looking at online, they take YOU down.

  5. Re:China goes "meta" by Dan667 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they generally yell "think of the children" when they are taking away your rights so how can you tell?