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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. Where are the percentages? by CannonballHead · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They give the map with actual numbers, apparently, right?

    I'd be more interested in what percentage of data that Google COULD get asked about is actually asked about.

    Otherwise, it's like saying that I killed 300 cows whereas my neighbor only killed 1. Well, it just so happens that my herd is 300x as big, too... a more understandable reading would be the percentage of cows killed per herd.

  2. Re:Dupe by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >>>United States
    >>>4287 data requests

    I'd like to see this same information broken-down State-by-State, so we can see which states are most censoring. I'm betting New York and California and Pennsylvania are near the top, given their previous activities.

    As for China, I wonder how long it will be until someplace like Australia or Canada decide "Hey that's a good idea" and declare takedown request to be state secrets.

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  3. State Secrets by hondo77 · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

    Somewhere in Washington, D.C. or nearby Virginia, someone in a cubicle just said, "Ooh, good idea!"

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  4. Re:Dupe by grub · · Score: 5, Interesting


    As for China, I wonder how long it will be until someplace like Australia or Canada decide "Hey that's a good idea" and declare takedown request to be state secrets.

    I checked the map, interesting Canada has less than 10 (!)

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

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  5. Re:Biggest democracies, biggest culprits by h00manist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not all of them
    Canada ............. 10

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  6. Re:Dupe by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At least in cases of some NSLs that we became aware of, NSL stated that even disclosing its existence is illegal. Disclosing the number of NSLs served would, quite obviously, disclose their existence.

    I also recall reading that some organizations in US have taken the approach of regularly posting something like "no NSLs have been served this months". This way, if one month they don't post anything, you know what happened.