Government Censor Requests Are Alarming, Says Google

[Markon101]

Stupid governments meddling in our internet.

 

[K2N hater]

[citation][nom]happyballz[/nom]It should says "democracies" ... because real democracy was lost long time ago, at best we have simulation of democratic elements- even those are not fully implemented most of the time. They are probably just testing the waters with small amount of take-down requests... this could get much more worse if they feel like we don't make an outrage about it.[/citation]
“Democracy ... wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” — Thomas Jefferson

 

[torque79]

I hope none of these court cases are generated specifically to explore the content and if it should get a takedown request. That's a horrible waste of tax money in my opinion. If people are not inclined to visit a site with inappropriate content they won't google search for it. Just because you take down static sites with hate speech, will not prevent people spouting it in a chat room or chatting between eachother. That would be a horrible waste of time and resources.

 

[Kami3k]

Awww, the nutters didn't like me calling them out.

 

[eddieroolz]

Google's privacy intrusions are just as alarming. Don't pretend to be the good one.

 

[dalethepcman]

quick everyone put your tinfoil hats back on. conspiracy nuts.... There are plenty of things to be worried about in the world, and Google being asked to delist a couple thousand sites means nothing. For those who would truly fight for free speech on the internet, a new domain name only cost's $8. And since it takes 6 months for a takedown to be processed that's plenty of time to get the word out.

 

[pjmelect]

There are more search engines than Google, if Google blocks to many web sites then people will simply use another search engine that does not censor its results.