A close look at Google’s handling of governments’ censorship demands
Google has released a new Transparency Report, its twice-yearly presentation of data about demands it receives to remove content from its services–everything from videos on YouTube to posts on Blogger to listings and links generated by Google searches. As a measure of the status of global free speech rights, it is a depressing but eye-opening trove of information. In the last six months of 2012, governments around the world (the U.S. included) sent Google 2,285