As I go about my busyness here in China, I am gemused to read that the British Government has made more requests for content to be removed from Google last year than any other country in Europe (according to Google).
Google recently reported that between July and December 2009 it received 1,166 data requests from British government agencies, of which 59 were requests for content to be removed.
Google complied with 76.3% of the removal requests.
Globally, Britain ranks third in terms of data requests; behind Brazil (3,663) and the United States (3,580). Figures for China, where Google faced heavy censorship until withdrawing earlier this year, are unavailable.
How ironic!
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ReplyDeleteInteresting figures.....I often wondered how many people in other oppressive nations knew how oppressed they actually were....I wonder how many people in Nanny's Utopia know just how much our government censor our media and the content thereof that ordinary people can receive.....Every Stalinist knows that if you control education and the media then you can control the population.....I wonder how far we have gone, so far, down that road.
Looking at the figures per capita, the UK is in the number one spot with Brazil a very close second and all other countries lagging way behind.
ReplyDeleteBritain leads the world again!
(population figures: USA 300M, Brazil 192M (wiki) and UK 60M).
Tony
And they call us a democracy!
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