Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal. The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public domains. As well as democratic governments,… Read More »The Observer’s got Big News about Google! The post The Observer’s got Big News about Google! first appeared on Tim Worstall.
Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal.
The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public domains.
As well as democratic governments, it has interacted with dictatorships, sanctioned regimes and governments accused of human rights abuses, including the police in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
That is, Google obeys the law.
Obviously, the law in a specific place can be good or bad by our standards. But it is still the law in that place. And do we actually want private sector companies deciding which local laws they’re going to follow? Or not?
Imagine if Google – unilaterally – decided not to obey UK law. The Observer’s reaction would be?
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