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 ever

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.