We're glad to see it supports our long-held view that requiring search engines to suppress ‘legitimate and legal information' would amount to censorship. Google doesn't have to delete sensitive personal information from its search engine index...
The Internet is touted by many to be, of necessity, free and open – invulnerable to tampering, censorship, or control by any single entity. In "Can Google be Trusted to Do No Evil? I talked about how Google+ provided a hub by which users could be...
In February, Google filed an appeal in Russia to challenge the censorship of a YouTube video deemed unlawful. Google challenged Russia’s censorship, saying, "We do not believe that the goal of the law was to limit access to videos that are clearly...
Since 2010 the company has been at odds with the country's government over its co-called Great Firewall and censorship policies. The Chinese Ministry of Technology has accused Google of unfairly discriminating against local firms by hindering the...
Google Reveals More Government Search Censorship Requests Today, Google released new data in the Transparency Report, showing user data requests received, through which means, and for how many of those requests data was produced and presumably...
The firm ceased issuing the warnings in early December, according to a report from Chinese censorship monitoring group Greatfire.org, and has removed supporting information from its about pages. What could be the reason for Google to switch off...
The site encourages users to take part in governance efforts and make their voices heard through various campaigns aimed at stopping web censorship and takedown efforts. Google has seen itself at the center of a number of government censorship and...
In the comparison, they find that searches on terms such as the “Tiananmen Square Incident” netted uncensored results without censorship notices where Baidu restricted the search results. Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co.is...
Baidu has a history of censorship scandals. The Baidu scandal points to the larger concern of online censorship in China. The company was sued for governmental censorship last year. Three employees of Chinese search engine Baidu have been arrested...
Facebook has also long fought against government censorship. Google's co-founder Sergey Brin in April applauded the social networking site for its refusal to give in to government censorship. Technology giants – and often competitors – Google...
Katz has included Google in the lawsuit this time because he filed a DMCA request over the picture of him sticking his tongue out and they refused to bow to his demand for censorship. Why do some people think Google is their very own reputation...
In some cases, they must consider local laws and may be facing down a court order, even if complying seems like participating in censorship. These requests aren’t always from the usual suspects either; Western democracies not typically associated...
Google recently launched an anti-censorship tool for Chinese search users, announcing the update on their Inside Search blog while carefully dancing around any direct mention of government censorship.
There is a fine line between censorship and free speech, which has the potential for user backlash. Social media presents great risks as it does rewards for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Among social media’s shortcomings: it doesn’t...
Unfortunately, most social media sites and other popular sites exclude Baidu’s spiders due to the Chinese internet censorship. Their largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, has more than 407 million users, with around 78 percent share of the total...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has repeated warnings that the greatest threat to Internet freedom is government censorship focused on crushing political dissent, and warned that attacks against online piracy are “misguided and dangerous”.
Conflating Internet censorship and Google’s biggest competitors is a bit lazy, and it makes Brin seem wistful and out of touch. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned against the growing number of restrictions on the Internet arising from...
AK Zensur, the German Working Group Against Access Blocking and Censorship, has been fighting the Danish block list for years, condemning the act of domain blocking by DNS hijacking as “looking away instead of acting.
Iran’s government seems to be ramping up its censorship of popular websites, targeting Google’s encrypted search, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Videos, among others. The government began blocking these sites Feb.the company confirmed.
Google, which has had a reputation in the past of resisting government censorship efforts, finds itself facing new challenges as the company looks to move into new markets. The policing and censorship of the web in India has become a hot topic in...
