Google complied with censorship requests from China, Russia, authoritarian regimes

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Google complied with censorship requests from China, Russia, authoritarian regimes

Since 2011, Google has engaged with 150 different governments that have requested content be scrubbed from public domains.

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The company has complied with several blocking requests filed by Russian and Chinese authorities and moderated political content.

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Google has facilitated censorship by removing certain content at the request of autocratic regimes such as Russia and China, reports the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. This included YouTube videos of anti-government demonstrations or content criticizing politicians and accusing them of corruption.

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For example, at the request of Russia and China, Google removed videos of demonstrations and criticism of corruption that appeared on the video portal YouTube.

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Google has removed millions of pieces of content at the request of the government - They are also cooperating with the Russian and Chinese governments.

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Google has collaborated with authoritarian regimes around the world, including the Kremlin and the Chinese Communist Party, and complied with their censorship requests, an investigation by The Guardian Observer revealed. Since 2011, the company has worked with about 150 countries seeking to remove information from public access. They included democratic governments as well as dictatorships, sanctions regimes, and governments accused of human rig…