Greatfire speculates that Google, which was immune to Chinese government pressure, could have decided to censor itself. Since the removal of the help article could only be done willingly by Google, the only explanation we see is that Google struck...
Some proposals could permit governments to censor legitimate speech - or even allow them to cut off internet access," Google argued. The site encourages users to take part in governance efforts and make their voices heard through various campaigns...
A group of Chinese residents in New York sued the search company for conspiring to censor pro-democratic content. Baidu has a history of censorship scandals. The Baidu scandal points to the larger concern of online censorship in China.
Google, Governments t Censor Search Results 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...
Google hasn’t actually operated in China since early 2010, when they decided they would no longer censor search results on Google.cn. Google recently launched an anti-censorship tool for Chinese search users, announcing the update on their Inside...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned against the growing number of restrictions on the Internet arising from governments' attempts to control communications and censor populations in nations such as China.
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...
Blacking out its logo and urging its users to “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web! The petition, which is still available via Google’s End Piracy, Not Liberty website, warned the millions who visit Google every day how the two anti-piracy...
Complete immunity for search engines, webhosts and others who self-censor, an obvious damper on innovation and freedom of the web. There’s no need to require American social networks, blogs, and search engines to censor the Internet or undermine...
Instead, Google users are greeted with the above image and a message: “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web! Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would...
Like many businesses, entrepreneurs, and Web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," a Google representative told CNET and...
Facebook, Google, Twitter and other web firms are facing pressure from the Indian authorities to censor their sites for content which may defame the government or offend religious sensibilities. However, Sibal has since denied that he was trying to...
Beyond standard de-indexing, this implies that social media sites will have to censor user-posted links. While there are plenty of legitimate worries to bring up here, I want to remind you that you're probably not as unilaterally opposed to...
As SEMPO puts it, the web functions "much more like the press than it is like a factory," and regulation here would constitute censorship – thus violating the freedom of the press. And here in our Western democracy, freedom of the press is a...
Restricting freedom of speech and censorship is illegal in Argentina, but the country’s constitution also protects people from discrimination. Google must stop suggesting searches that lead users to anti-Semitic websites and scrub its search...
Perhaps rather than spending millions lobbying Congress and fighting a few websites or forcing search engines to censor search results, Hollywood could figure out a new, more affordable and smarter global delivery model that would render piracy...
However, even if Google loses and is forced to censor its search results, the articles will still be available on the websites. What's worrying is why they should go to Google, rather than the people who are putting up this content - some of which...
Governments shouldn't try to censor because they don't agree with it. Anonymous is supporting WikiLeaks not because we agree or disagree with the data that is being sent out, but we disagree with any form of censorship on the internet.
We will fire at anything or anyone that tries to censor WikiLeaks, including multibillion-dollar companies such as PayPal," a statement circulating online, apparently from Operation: Payback, said. More on Wikileaks Censorship
True there are now no search results specific to China - but the search queries will give answers that the Chinese government is seeking to censor - so then Google is making it the job of the Chinese to block the site.
