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Google: government requests to censor content ‘alarming’

Posted on June 18th, 2012 at 18:29 by John Sinteur in category: News -- Write a comment

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Google and many other online providers maintain that they cannot lawfully remove any content for which they are merely the host and not the producer, a principle enshrined in EU law on eCommerce since 2000.

In January 2012 the European Union’s executive Commission announced it would introduce clearer guidelines on handling such requests, outlining under which circumstances it would be legal to have content removed from the Web and when it would curb free speech and fundamental rights.

The Commission has launched a public consultation called “a clean and open Internet” and has asked companies how many requests they get to take down content, from whom and for what reason.

The [European Union’s executive] Commission has launched a public consultation called “a clean and open Internet”

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  1. Oh good, sounds like a make-work project! Let’s give all the unemployed young adults in the EU free internet and pay then to research this question.

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