Oh My Gosh!! Shock !! Google has Censorship ……… !

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BBC  17 June 2012 Last updated at 23:51GMT

Google has revealed it removed about 640 videos from YouTube that allegedly promoted terrorism over the second half of 2011 after complaints from the UK's Association of Police Officers.

The news was contained in its latest Transparency Report which discloses requests by international authorities to remove or hand over material.

The firm said it terminated five accounts linked to the suspect videos.

However, the firm said it had rejected many other state's requests for action.

Canada's Passport Office was among the organisations rebuffed. It had asked for a video of a Canadian citizenurinating on his passport and then flushing it down the toilet be removed.

Google also refused to delete six YouTube videos that satirised Pakistan's army and senior politicians. The order had come from the government of Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology.

Free speech

But Google did act in hundreds of cases, including:

• requests to block more than 100 YouTube videos in Thailand that allegedly insulted its monarchy - a crime in the country
• the removal of a YouTube video that contained hate speech that had been posted in Turkey
• the termination of four YouTube accounts responsible for videos that allegedly contained threatening and harassing content after complaints by different US law enforcement agencies.
  

Overall, the firm said it had received 461 court orders covering a total of 6,989 items between July and December 2011. It said it had complied with 68% of the orders.

It added that it had received afurther 546 informal requests covering 4,925 items, of which it had agreed to 43% of the cases.

Google's senior policy analyst, Dorothy Chou, said the company was concerned by the amount of requests that had been linked to political speech.

"It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect - Western democracies not typically associated with censorship," she said.

"For example, in the second half of last year, Spanish regulators asked us to remove 270 search results that linked to blogs and articles in newspapers referencing individuals and public figures, including mayors and public prosecutors.

"In Poland, we received a request from the Agency for Enterprise Development to remove links to a site that criticised it.

"We didn't comply with either of these requests."

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UA 175

Wikipedia has a whole page on the Fictitious "UA 175",the United B767 that was shown penetrating the massive steel facade of the South Tower on 9/11 like a hot knife through butter.Needless to say,Wikipedia does not show stills from the fake videos.All my attempts to inject a little truth have been almost instantly neutralised.

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petera Post time: 2012-6-19 19:53
UA 175

Wikipedia has a whole page on the Fictitious "UA 175",the United B767 that was shown penetra ...

Wiki ....................

Isn't that the one where they have favoured editors who if they feel thy disagree ............

They eliminate the content .................   

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expatter Post time: 2012-6-19 19:59
Wiki ....................

Isn't that the one where they have favoured editors who if they feel th ...

Sounds..

like the same one.

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petera Post time: 2012-6-19 20:00
Sounds..

like the same one.

Well ....................

Free speech is rather arbitrary  ............

Although some talk of it as if sacred  ........

There are still curiously exceptions ............   

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wisdom_pang Post time: 2012-6-19 21:33
Them space mapping and street view clicking are all subsidised CIA spying activities.
I thought you  ...

They have certainly been found as an 'invasive' species  ............