We already know Twitter plans to censor specific tweets that governments do not like, now its Google's turn. Along with their new invasive privacy policy coming March 1st for all users, Google said it would censor content in certain country and regions.
According to Google, users will be redirected to certain country specific web addresses. Example being, your in Australia and you visit "something.blogspot.com" you will get redirected to something.blogspot.au
Google says doing so would allot them to comply with yet even more censorship requests (been happening a lot on YouTube with Greece protests, Libya protests, Egypt, Occupy Wall street) on a per country basis.
Google continued to say:
"Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law."
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What? Censorship is censorship and free speech is free speech. There is no mix. You either allow it or you don't. I think this is a bad move on Google and a start of something worse. Soon other services will censor "while promoting free speech"
So what do you guys think? leave a comment below. This kinda affects everyone. Especially you non U.S. bloggers.
Important:
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google should piss on the US government and the UN all together. It's a violent and abusive system of cults that we can do away with all together
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how Google protested SOPA just to continue w/ their own form of censorship. Or maybe this is their way of appeasing the SOPA supporters...
ReplyDeleteThey don't really care about SOPA, they only want money.
DeleteThere's always some control freak.
ReplyDeletePretty interesting news!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever disliked Google more. This is not promoting free speech at all.
ReplyDeleteI dont want to live on this planet anymore.
ReplyDeleteIf you need to censor someone, you should really be (re?)evaluating your argument against it. I can't stand censorship. If you don't like it, don't watch it. If you don't want your kid to watch it, don't let the tv babysit. C'mon son.
ReplyDeleteIt sucks, can't really say more than that. It just goes against everything everyone on the internet have been working on for years. It's the future, stop preventing it.
ReplyDeleteSigh... google is ridiculous. How are they going to come out so anti censorship then turn around and censor everything? I think there should be a mass protest against google, where no one uses it for like a week, see how they like that.
ReplyDeleteAll this censorship is just society regressing back to stupid simple minded mentality. It's daft and pointless, and it's just gunna encourage ppl to find a way around it anyway. Stupidness.
ReplyDeleteCensorship. I never thought I'd see the day that America was fond of censorship.
ReplyDeleteI just saw a funny video about googles privacy policy called the gmail man
ReplyDeleteWell, that`s just sucks.
ReplyDeleteLooks like I'm going to have to be "government friendly" with my posts from now on.
ReplyDelete/sarcasm
Censorship is free expression.
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Oh Orwell, you crazy.
awesome. these truly are the end times for the free internet
ReplyDeleteI'm not thrilled about this but it's already being done in places like Germany where Google filters out Nazi content.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to know that SOPA and PIPA didn't really pass but why do we get all these internet censorship after that?
ReplyDeleteCensorship... it looks that Internet is not going to be a free space anymore.
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ReplyDeleteBut thats just me...