Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for 'UK national security issues'

[Blakenzy]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/25/google-youtube-national-security

And the same for the US:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/25/google-transparency-report-released

I wonder what exactly was in those videos. I'm guessing it has to do with civil unrest and police actions.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

thats odd i read in the linked atricle that they refused to pull the vids showing police brutality

[dogmush]

thats odd i read in the linked atricle that they refused to pull the vids showing police brutality

From first article:

Google said it fully or partially complied with 82% of requests from the UK government, police and courts.

from second article:

The technology giant's biannual transparency report shows that Google refused the demands from the unnamed authority in the first half of this year.

According to the report, Google separately declined orders by other police authorities to remove videos that allegedly defamed law enforcement officials.

I'd be interested in how often and under what circumstances Google told .gov to pound sand.  I wonder too if the laws for this stuff are more lenient here then in GB.

I also worry a little that Google might achieve their stated goal of "modernize laws like the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which regulates government access to user information" but not in the fashion they, or we, would prefer.

[longeyes]

Probably the videos of the signs telling Brits to get out of their own country, "Death to the U.K.," that sort of thing...and the cops standing around waiting for Cameron to tell them what to do next.

[gunsmith]

I think this is the golden age of info, probably in the future it will revert to .gov sanctioned info like in the sixties with only three networks, they will turn the net over to the U.N & that will be that.