• Governments asking Google to remove more content
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jobVg.jpg[/IMG] US authorities are leading the charge as governments around the world pepper Google with more demands to remove online content and turn over information about people using its Internet search engine, YouTube video site and other services. Many of the requests are legitimate attempts to enforce laws governing hot-button issues ranging from personal privacy to hate speech. But Google says it increasingly fields requests from government agencies trying to use their power to suppress political opinions and other material they don't like. "It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect - Western democracies not typically associated with censorship," Dorothy Chou, Google's senior policy analyst, wrote in a Sunday blog post. Governments zero in on Google because its services have become staples of our digital-driven lives. Besides running the Internet’s most dominant search engine, Google owns the most watched video site in YouTube, operates widely used blogging and email services and distributes Android, the top operating system on mobile phones. During the past year, Google has focused on expanding Plus, a social networking service, that boasts more than 170 million users. One US request from a local law enforcement agency asked Google to remove 1,400 YouTube videos for alleged harassment. Without identifying the requesting agency or the targeted videos, Google said it rejected the demand. Other governments frequently reaching out to Google included Germany (103 content-removal requests, down 18 per cent from the previous six-month period), and India (101 requests, a 49 per cent increase). At least four countries - Bolivia, the Czech Republic, Jordan and Ukraine - asked Google to remove content for the first time during the final six months of last year. Governments also are leaning Google more frequently for information about people suspected of breaking the law or engaging in other mischief. The US government alone filed 6,321 requests with Google for user data during the final six months of the year. [url]http://techland.time.com/2012/06/18/governments-asking-google-to-remove-more-content/[/url]
Bing doesn't seem so bad now.
[QUOTE=Thlis;36382664]Bing doesn't seem so bad now.[/QUOTE] If Bing got bigger, it'd be the same shit, different company
Ask Jeeves doesn't seem so bad now.
[QUOTE=Thlis;36382664]Bing doesn't seem so bad now.[/QUOTE] I'd rather trust Google than Microsoft honestly. Even if they're both huge companies, Google has a more "close to its users" history kind of thing.
not going to happen read article don't say stupid shit
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;36382698]I'd rather trust Google than Microsoft honestly. Even if they're both huge companies, Google has a more "close to its users" history kind of thing.[/QUOTE] I don't see why you trust google so much since they make their business off of selling your information to advertisers.
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;36382698]I'd rather trust Google than Microsoft honestly. Even if they're both huge companies, Google has a more "close to its users" history kind of thing.[/QUOTE] I know Google is close to its users. And I can show it with two words: Incognito Mode :v:
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;36382695]Ask Jeeves doesn't seem so bad now.[/QUOTE] Duckduckgo
[QUOTE=Thlis;36382715]I don't see why you trust google so much since they make their business off of selling your information to advertisers.[/QUOTE] I don't, I'm just feeling more comfortable with them. I'm not delusionnal, they're still all about money... just less than Microsoft imho.
Whack
haha governments need to shut the fuck up and let people share information freely
Hate speech? That sounds more like people whining about someone calling them a bad name, as always.
[QUOTE=dass;36383542]Hate speech? That sounds more like people whining about someone calling them a bad name, as always.[/QUOTE] Yes because there certainly is no such thing as inciteful racism, hate speech, or terrorist attack videos on the internet oh wait it's the internet lolol
[QUOTE=scout1;36383639]Yes because there certainly is no such thing as inciteful racism, hate speech, or terrorist attack videos on the internet oh wait it's the internet lolol[/QUOTE] So let there be. It's the Internet; if we want it to act like the massive pool of free information that it's set out to be we can't be selective.
[QUOTE=Rong;36382640] The US government alone filed 6,321 requests with Google for user data during the final six months of the year.[/QUOTE] I hope/wish they got nothing.
[QUOTE=Thlis;36382715]I don't see why you trust google so much since they make their business off of selling your information to advertisers.[/QUOTE] not like they explicitly state that you can opt out or anything instead of secretly and forcefully collecting information, right?
[QUOTE=The golden;36383921]Unfortunately that goes against the desire of pretty much every government in existence.[/QUOTE] Indeed, they seem to have a lot to hide. So much for transparency...
I don't see why people are blaming Google for this, very little content is actually removed and this is only when sufficient evidence and/or legal orders is presented. I have little doubt that Bing would crumble under such pressure. The only reason we're hearing about this is because Google thought the world should know what they're being asked to do by even supposedly clean governments.
Just another right taken away by the government.
[QUOTE=Garik;36383227]Whack[/QUOTE] I wonder what he wants to see whacked :v: [editline]18th June 2012[/editline] It ends in E.
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;36384399]Just another right taken away by the government.[/QUOTE] Well, another right that the government are *trying* to take away.
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;36382698]I'd rather trust Google than Microsoft honestly. Even if they're both huge companies, Google has a more "close to its users" history kind of thing.[/QUOTE] "Close" to spy on "its users".
[QUOTE=Secrios;36386113]"Close" to spy on "its users".[/QUOTE] You can opt-out of the anonymous reporting
If they can request shit about us and get it, how is it fair that we can't get everything we ask for from them? If they can know about all the terrible things i look at, why can't i know about the terrible things they do in say guantanamo bay.
The US doesn't do this.
[QUOTE=Pantz76;36386572]The US doesn't do this.[/QUOTE] Now it does.
Next we'll be seeing them want to remove one of the 'o's in "Google" because they "resemble a pair of tits"
That's whack
[QUOTE=Pantz76;36386572]The US doesn't do this.[/QUOTE] Haha, [I]no[/I]. They're like, the first candidate for shit like this.
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