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Contrary to that headline it's actually more of a counter-censorship measure: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2402711 http://suppo

by yanw 15y ago

Contrary to that headline it's actually more of a counter-censorship measure: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2402711 http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country's law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD. So after a local authority demands that a blog post be removed, it will still be available at *.blogspot.com

magicalist 15y ago
Yeah, this article is pretty much just terrible reporting. If this tech reporter utilized their long term memory (or a search engine), they would remember everyone reporting on the google transparency report, which tells you exactly how much content each government has asked them to take down, and how many times they've complied with those requests. They would also have remembered the notes in that report that said that google was doing this exact same censorship to comply with eg Indian or German laws while not removing the content for the rest of the world http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/removals/ http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/... I mean, seriously? "Ebay thought that they could hide it, but hidden away in their TOS are rules for country-specific censorship, like hiding nazi memorabilia in german search results. It appears that Ebay snuck those terms in there 11 fucking years ago." Censorship: it's a really hard problem. Luckily we have tech reporters.