[kictanet] Google Statistics on Government Censorship Requests

[John K. Njoroge]

Cheers John! Thanks for the interesting info. The number of Government
requests is quite marveling. And the thought of blocking certain
content/services, is certainly an issue of great debate i.e. how it is done
and why as well as what value it has and what it means to the nature/use
and/or value of the Internet.

John K.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   Check this out this interesting link
>
> http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/
>
> Apparently Google is more government friendly than imagined - it tends to
> comply with most Government requests to block certain
> content/services...(this makes me wonder what their beef was with China).
>
> So anyway, when Google complies with Govt requests, it means that when
> users in Kenya search for e.g.  kenyan-hate-speech related content they wont
> see that; but if the same Kenyan does the same search from the US territory,
> they can see the very hate-speech that has been blocked within the Kenyan
> territory...
>
> mmhhh...talk of technology controlling society.
>
> walu.
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