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作者: peter236 時間: 2010-4-21 02:41 標題: Britain heads Google’s European censorship list

http://technology.timesonline.co ... /article7103435.ece

Nigel Kendal, Technology Editor

The British Government made more requests for content to be removed from Google last year than any other country in Europe, according to figures released by the company today.

Between July and December last year, Google received 1,166 data requests from British government agencies, of which 59 were requests for content to be removed. Google complied with 76.3 per cent of the removal requests.

France made 846 data requests, but fewer than ten removal requests, of which 66.7 per cent were successful.

Globally, Britain ranks third in terms of data requests, behind Brazil (3,663) and the United States (3,580), although figures for China, where Google faced heavy censorship until withdrawing earlier this year, are unavailable.

David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said that Google had decided to make the figures available in the interests of transparency.

“Government censorship of the web is growing rapidly: from the outright blocking and filtering of sites, to court orders limiting access to information and legislation forcing companies to self-censor content,” he said.

“So it’s no surprise that Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content from our services.

“Of course many of these requests are entirely legitimate, such as requests for the removal of child pornography. We also regularly receive requests from law enforcement agencies to hand over private user data. Again, the vast majority of these requests are valid and the information needed is for legitimate criminal investigations.

“Data about these activities historically has not been broadly available. We believe that greater transparency will lead to less censorship.”

At present, Google provides only the number of requests received for data and data removal; no detail is available about the nature of individual requests, although Google says that it plans to fine-tune the data in future reports, which it will issue every six months.

The picture provided by the data may be fuzzy, but Google’s aims are clear. Apart from sites that breach local laws – such as the glorification of Nazism in Germany – Google is committed to blocking censorship where it contravenes Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which upholds the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

Writing in The Washington Post, Mr Drummond said: “We are looking into how we can better provide resources and support for developing technology designed to combat and circumvent Internet censorship.

“The inherently global, borderless nature of the Internet means that policies created to govern content in a few countries can affect all of us.

“We believe that more information generally means more choice, more freedom and ultimately more power for the individual.”

作者: rockypath 時間: 2010-4-21 08:12

Peter, would you be able to find the figure for Asia as well? India (which you enjoy metioning) must be on the list as well.

作者: Lik 時間: 2010-4-21 09:46

Oh, the figure for China is unavailable tim~ I guess that means they made ZERO request la~ Perfect! Full marks!!!

Food for thought: can an article like this even get published in China?

-Lik

作者: peter236 時間: 2010-4-21 11:17

本帖最後由 peter236 於 2010-4-21 11:28 編輯

Oh, the figure for China is unavailable tim~ I guess that means they made ZERO request la~ Perfect! ...
Lik 發表於 2010-4-21 09:46

Your Great Britain is not as squeaky clean as you think.
Just when people think Britain has so much freedom of speech that there is little censorship, think again.

作者: Lik 時間: 2010-4-21 11:59

Did I ever claim Britain is squeaky clean?

All I ever say repeatedly is that most western countries are a heck of a lot better than China on basic human rights issues. Think a little before you write la. (If you have the capacity to do that, that is...

)

-Lik

作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 12:08

回復 5# Lik

No need to waste time educating those morons, they are either
talking blank to themselves, or posting free advertisement for the
red china

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 12:16

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作者: peter236 時間: 2010-4-21 12:26

本帖最後由 peter236 於 2010-4-21 12:28 編輯

so you do not deny China ia not squeaky clean as you think neither?
mukmuk2 發表於 2010-4-21 12:16

You must have eaten too many malaysian satays. You have been farting way too much.

You are just a coward, still hiding.

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 12:28

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作者: peter236 時間: 2010-4-21 12:29

本帖最後由 peter236 於 2010-4-21 12:31 編輯

haha whatever you said. You are more crowd than any of us who only dare to talk talk here but tak ...
mukmuk2 發表於 2010-4-21 12:28

You coward just go back to your great Taiwan.

I really have nothing against you, but you repeatedly came into my threads and started bashing Yao Ming and the Chinese etc. Like I said before, if you don't like it, fine. Just leave it.

作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 12:30

or hypocrite as his buddy calls it.

Jai Talk

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 12:32

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作者: peter236 時間: 2010-4-21 12:34

haha you have nothing to say but acting like that Toppy guy? haha you are only talk talk la. In y ...
mukmuk2 發表於 2010-4-21 12:32

hahaha, you coward, just stop hiding behind mukmuk2.

作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 12:36

Taiwanese girls are hot too,
I used to hang out at the Vogue
and Gogo Tea

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 12:37

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作者: peter236 時間: 2010-4-21 12:40

heee me is me and no need to hide. this is just too funny.
mukmuk2 發表於 2010-4-21 12:37

okay, mukmuk2, just leave it. Please do not reply anymore, you coward.

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 12:43

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作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 12:45

why? You know how I got Tiffiant banned? because he kept on replying my meaningless messages with ...
mukmuk2 發表於 2010-4-21 12:43

So your true identity is rocky?

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 12:48

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作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 12:54

回復 19# mukmuk2

and Lik?

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 12:57

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作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 13:00

回復 21# mukmuk2

is your mittens made in China?

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 13:14

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作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 13:15

回復 23# mukmuk2

And you too?

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 13:17

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作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 13:19

回復 25# mukmuk2

I thought all the olympic memoramblias are
MIGC

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-21 20:16

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作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-21 22:10

回復 27# mukmuk2

OIC

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-23 11:16

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作者: MAXIMUS 時間: 2010-4-23 13:04

another off topic posts. You started it first.

When you cannot give argument, you always star ...
mukmuk2 發表於 2010-4-23 11:16

otherwise he wouldn't be the master moron

作者: mukmuk2 時間: 2010-4-23 13:40

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