{"id":5150,"date":"2010-09-21T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2010-09-22T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T12:59:28","slug":"google-updates-anti-censorship-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/09\/21\/google-updates-anti-censorship-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Updates Anti-Censorship Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/googles-updates-anti-censorship-weapons-51357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5153\" title=\"100922_google\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/100922_google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Earlier this year Google launched an innovative \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-government-requests-tool-40354\">Government Requests map<\/a>,\u201d  which showed how regularly governments around the world were asking  Google to remove information or content from its index and services.  Google won plaudits for the initiative, as well as criticism from some  governments that the map allegedly <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/brazil-google-is-making-us-look-bad-40789\">made look like censoring regimes<\/a>. Yesterday Google folded the Government Requests Map into a new two pronged \u201cTransparency Report.\u201d The new \u201creport\u201d will feature the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/transparencyreport\/governmentrequests\/\">existing Government requests<\/a> for content removal, which have been updated, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/transparencyreport\/traffic\/\">traffic timeline<\/a>.  The latter \u201cvisualizes disruptions in the free flow of information,  whether it\u2019s a government blocking information or a cable being cut.\u201d  For example in Iran YouTube hasn\u2019t been available since last year\u2019s  presidential election and government crackdown. <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/googles-updates-anti-censorship-weapons-51357\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company: Google | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/googles-updates-anti-censorship-weapons-51357\" target=\"_blank\">Search Engine Land<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Google launched an innovative \u201cGovernment Requests map,\u201d which showed how regularly governments around the world were asking Google to remove information or content from its index and services. Google won plaudits for the initiative, as well as criticism from some governments that the map allegedly made look like censoring regimes. Yesterday Google&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-google","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}