Originally Posted By WilliamK99 <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/tech/web/google-transparency-report/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/...dex.html</a> This report absolutely stunned me, I knew that the United States was slowly trying to censor the web, but I didn't realize we had already started... This specific point is what bothered me the most.... "In one incident cited in the report, a U.S. law enforcement agency asked Google to take down a blog that "allegedly defamed a law enforcement official in a personal capacity." The company did not comply with that request." I realize that there are quite a few blogs and other articles that may make someone look unfavorable, but do we really need to attempt to censor the Internet? I do like how Google is only complying with 42% of the requests, but even then that's 42% too high...
Originally Posted By ecdc This bothers me too. I wonder how much of law enforcement's time is spent doing something like this, especially when it's at the behest of powerful lobbies like the MPAA requesting censorship of sites linking to pirated material.
