The Internet is touted by many to be, of necessity, free and open – invulnerable to tampering, censorship, or control by any single entity. Unless, of course, your viewpoint is that of a government official responsible for controlling the unruly...
Other critics of the law say it could lead to more censorship by the government outside of its original intent. In February, Google filed an appeal in Russia to challenge the censorship of a YouTube video deemed unlawful.
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 In their blog announcement, Google released the following stats from July to December 2012: percent of the requests Google received from government entities in the U.S.were through subpoenas.
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...
Google has seen itself at the center of a number of government censorship and takedown efforts. The site encourages users to take part in governance efforts and make their voices heard through various campaigns aimed at stopping web censorship and...
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. The IA plans to launch sometime this September and will...
These requests aren’t always from the usual suspects either; Western democracies not typically associated with censorship are participating in the requested removal of political content, says Google’s Senior Policy Analyst, Dorothy Chou.
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.
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 had launched its search engine in China in 2006 and had censored search results for four years to comply with the...
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 debate over censorship and government oversight spilled into the...
The apparent inclusion of search blocking, widely regarded as Internet censorship. Smith said in response to the White House’s show of opposition to the bill in its current form, "It is not censorship to enforce the law against foreign thieves.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt called piracy solutions “draconian” and “censorship. Two bills currently making their way through congress -- SOPA and PIPA -- give the US government and copyright holders extraordinary powers including the...
However, Sibal has since denied that he was trying to promote government-led censorship, suggesting instead that it is the duty of social media companies to remove the content. Facebook, Google, Twitter and other web firms are facing pressure from...
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 censorship as you think; you're probably just opposed to certain types of censorship.
There’s a bill that would require ISPs to remove URLs from the Web, which is also known as censorship last time I checked. So now, as we again debate Web censorship, let's ask ourselves: what next generation of innovations won't be realized if we...
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...
The dedication to a specific ethical code that refuses the censorship of the Chinese government makes full web searching impossible. It’s unlikely that the Chinese government will pay attention to a deal-finding service, and even if they did, the...
