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Brazil government leader in online censorship requests, says Google Transparency Report
Brazil has a big lead as the country with the most government requests to remove online content by judicial order in the latest Google Transparency Report, released last week. In the period between July and December 2012, the search giant received 1,461 court-ordered requests from governments around the world to remove content, including YouTube videos and search results, with nearly 43% of them coming from Brazilian authorities. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBoth Brazil and the US need to be very careful in this area. Government censorship is not a good look and both countries have a lot to loose!
Apr 29th, 2013 - 07:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Government requests
Apr 29th, 2013 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina
We received a request to remove a YouTube video that allegedly defames the President by depicting her in a compromising position. We age-restricted the video in accordance with YouTube's Community Guidelines.
Caption competition anyone?
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGIfQ-GVM58
Apr 29th, 2013 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3
Apr 29th, 2013 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Much ado about nothing really.
Especially regarding it was made in Miami...
Apr 29th, 2013 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0;)
We received inquiries from 20 countries regarding YouTube videos that contain clips of the movie, “Innocence of Muslims”: Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei, Djibouti, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Maldives, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Australia, Egypt, and the United States requested that we review the videos to determine if they violated our Community Guidelines, which they did not. The other 17 countries requested that we remove the videos. We restricted videos from view in Indonesia, India, Jordan, Malaysia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Turkey. Due to difficult circumstances, we temporarily restricted videos from view in Egypt and Libya.
Apr 29th, 2013 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We received a request from a local government agency to remove a YouTube video that allegedly defamed a school administrator. We did not remove the video.
We received three separate requests from local law enforcement agencies to remove three YouTube videos that allegedly defamed police officers, public prosecutors or contained information about police investigations. We did not remove the videos.
In response to three court orders, we removed 771 items from Google Groups relating to a case of continuous defamation against a man and his family.
We received three different court orders from different individuals that were addressed to third parties, along with a request to remove 690 items from Google Groups, that allegedly contained defamatory statements. We asked for clarification but never received a reply.
We received three court orders from different individuals that were addressed to third parties, along with requests to remove 452 search results that linked to websites that allegedly contain defamatory content. We removed 70 search results that we determined to fall within the scope of the orders.
In response to a court order, we removed 119 search results that linked to websites allegedly hosting trademark infrin
The trouble with dictatorships and hypercrits,
Apr 29th, 2013 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is they know what, what they say, just what they are ordered to do,
They slag you off , condemn you, insult you, abuse you, tell abhorrent lies about you,
But when you do it,
They cry foul,
pot-kettle-black..
how do they sleep at night, CFK being the instigator into pushing others like brazil to do her dirty work.
mm
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/29/brazil-government-leader-in-online-censorship-requests-says-google-transparency-report#comment243267: Brazil is not doing anybody's “dirty work”. Brazil acts in its own national interest, as it sees it.
Apr 30th, 2013 - 03:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0we will remind you of this,
Apr 30th, 2013 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0when the un-mighty CFK cries next..
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/29/brazil-government-leader-in-online-censorship-requests-says-google-transparency-report#comment243510: You can do whatever you like but the fact remains.
Apr 30th, 2013 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we will remind you of this,
May 01st, 2013 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0when the un-mighty CFK cries next...
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