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."

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for the impatient

[fringd]

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/

Re:Dupe

[slshwtw]

What's new is that there is now more detailed information available through the tool (see the BBC article for a better run-down).
For instance clicking on the USA results in:

United States
4287 data requests
128 removal requests, for a total of 678 items
82.8% of removal requests fully or partially complied with

* AdWords

o 1 court orders to remove content
o 1 items requested to be removed

* Blogger

o 8 court orders to remove content
o 45 items requested to be removed

* Geo (except Street View)

o 2 court orders to remove content
o 2 items requested to be removed

* Video

o 1 court orders to remove content
o 1 items requested to be removed

* Groups

o 7 court orders to remove content
o 394 items requested to be removed

* Web Search

o 30 court orders to remove content
o 2 non-court order requests to remove content
o 66 items requested to be removed

* YouTube

o 31 court orders to remove content
o 46 non-court order requests to remove content
o 169 items requested to be removed