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BanzaiBonnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 10:40 AM
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Google cooperating with government
over requests to remove protest videos of citizens standing up to a tyrannical judge in Britain. The article begins with that incident, but goes on to give examples from the US as well.

It's well worth reading. If you think we have freedom of expression while the fox is guarding the henhouse, think again. This article is WELL worth reading.


http://current.com/1gdhikc


You Tube’s behavior is more despicable than the Communist Chinese, who are at least open about their censorship policies, whereas You Tube hides behind a blanket excuse and doesn’t even say what law has been broken.

Anyone who swallows the explanation that the videos were censored in this case because the government was justifiably enforcing a law that says scenes from inside a court room cannot be filmed is beyond naive. Court was not even in session in the protest footage that was removed, and the judge had already left the courtroom.

The real reason for the removal is the fact that the British government is obviously petrified of seeing a group of focused and educated citizens, black, white, old and young, male and female, go head to head with the corrupt system on its own stomping ground.

In their efforts to keep a lid on the growing populist fury that has arrived in response to rampant and growing financial and political tyranny in every sector of society, governments in the west are now mimicking Communist Chinese-style Internet censorship policies in a bid to neutralize protest movements, while hypocritically lecturing the rest of the world on maintaining web freedom.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 10:42 AM
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1. Too bad Google doesn't cooperate with government when it comes to copyright law!
They think they can copy anything they want onto their servers even though the web site they are copying from clearly states the data is copyrighted and can't be copied!
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 10:42 AM
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2. government censorship of populism... welcome to fascist America
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 10:52 AM
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3. Google is evil. I'm avoiding it at every opportunity.
They're about capturing and controlling resources like every other predatory corporation.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 11:08 AM
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4. Here's an alternative for searches
http://duckduckgo.com/

And they don't record your searches and keep them on file for 2 years like Google does.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 11:10 AM
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5. Thank you!
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 01:14 PM
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6. What the fuck is Google going to do with a terabyte worth of my searches?
Doesn't anyone else play Google games?

Give me three words whose google search leads to exactly one site.

Combine two or three controversial topics and see who thinks they belong together, such as...

+child +porn +zirconium +tweezers
or
+ANFO +bomb +chocolate +mousse

yes, I just added both of those to my Google record.
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