Google: Obama Administration Increases Requests for Content Removal

Newsmax ^ | 6/18/12 | Thomson/Reuters

[Nachum]

U.S. authorities are leading the charge as governments around the world pepper Google (GOOG) with more demands to remove online content and turn over information about people using its Internet search engine, YouTube video site and other services.

Google provided a glimpse at the onslaught of government requests in a summary posted on its website late Sunday. The breakdown covers the final six months of last year. It's the fifth time that Google has released a six-month snapshot of government requests since the company engaged in a high-profile battle over online censorship with China's communist leadership in 2010.

The country-by-country capsule illustrates the pressure Google faces as it tries to obey the disparate laws in various countries while trying to uphold its commitment to free expression and protect the sanctity its more than 1 billion users' personal information.

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.

[GOPJ]

Liberals have tamed the MSM, turned them into 'harmless'... guess they want to do the same with the folks who still have a pair...

The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM will fail to notice this story. Hello New York Times....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sounds like tossing a monkey wrench into it to me.

[tsowellfan]

Here’s one article the WH has been trying to chase off the internet. I’m posting the Free Republic link to this story because every webpage or blog that carries it ends up dropping the story and others will pick it back up.

I figured it’s easier to post the FR link which includes all of the text rather than chase the site of the day that carries it while others remove the story.

Is Barack Obama AKA Barry Soetoro?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2704560/posts

[Graewoulf]

” - - - - the U.S. requests sought to censor nearly 6,200 items.”

Awwwwwwwwwww, da iddo-bitty Obama Fat Cats got dere iddo-bitty feelings hurt.

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[Bikkuri]