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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3535502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3535502

• magicalist 15y ago
  Thanks. As I pointed out there, google censoring content on a per-country basis is truly a shocking and unprecedented event: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/removals/ http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/... It's weird. The last time Wired covered this topic, they focused more on the US government issuing by far the greatest number of requests for user data, and hanging out with Germany and South Korea in the number of content take down court orders (including 18 in 2010 and 16 in the first half of 2011 from, wait for it...Blogger blogs). http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/google-data-requests/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/google-data-request... If Google and Twitter are going to be asked to be conscientious objectors from internet censorship (as moral representatives for the citizens who can't get their shit together), I can think of the first country they should probably pull out of...
• yohui 15y ago
  Thanks. A comment from that discusion, by yanw, points out that this may be more accurately construed as an anti-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. EDIT: I imagine it could increase censorship if this weakens Google's resistance to local censorship demands. Though content would still remain available at *.blogspot.com (I assume).