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To: FJB who wrote (491448)	6/18/2012 4:10:42 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 793866

US leads world in government removal requests to Google US government official decries censorship of content, calls kettle black. by Cyrus Farivar - June 18 2012, 11:50am CDT arstechnica.com The United States government leads the world in content removal requests to Google, as measured by specific items, according to the company’s latest transparency data report for the second half of 2011. The data, which was released Monday, shows that American authorities requested over 3,800 items via court order. That's more than twice as many as the next country, Germany. Google says it complied with 40 percent of the American requests. In addition, over 2,300 items were requested from law enforcement or other means that did not involve a court order. Interestingly, according to the Irish Times (reporting from this week’s Dublin Conference for Internet Freedom) Thomas Melia, deputy assistant secretary of state in the US Bureau of Democracy, told attendees that “too many governments were filtering, censoring content, taking down sites, and perpetuating Internet shutdowns.” Continues...