Google Transparency Report: Government Requests

Google Transparency Report: Government Requests

Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. This map shows the number of requests that we received in six-month blocks with certain limitations.

We’re still learning the best way to collect and present this information. We’ll continue to improve this tool and fine-tune the types of data we display.

View the interactive map on Google's site here

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Canada, Mexico, France, Spain, South Korea and Japan are included in this list. I experienced this type of blocking when I lived in South Korea when I tried to look for at a North Korean site mentioned on the Rachel Maddow Show. Censorship is the first weapon that tyrants use.

John H. Armwood

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The Rachel Maddow Show - Maddow to President: Stand up for what is right because you know it is right

The Rachel Maddow Show - Maddow to President: Stand up for what is right because you know it is right

Adapted from Rachel Maddow's closing segment Wednesday:

"On the show tonight, we heard from three people whose American military careers are being ended because of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: U.S. Army Captain Jonathan Hopkins, U.S. Military Academy Cadet. Sgt. Katherine Miller and U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach.

ended right now.

"The $25 million that you and I, the taxpayers, have spent on Victor Fehrenbach's training as an F-15 fighter pilot is down the tubes. The decade of investment that you and I paid for that built Jonathan J. Hopkins into a striker brigade combat team commander -- that's down the tubes. That's over. The $350,000 investment that you and I made in building Cadet Sergeant Katie Miller into a top 10 at West Point, Yale-caliber scholar who could also bench press you, if need be - that's down the tubes. All of that is over.

"None of those three men and woman wants it to be over. They want to serve. But as we take our time winding down this policy that everyone says will be ending, as we shamble toward justice, we as a country are continuing to put the lives of these individuals through the meat grinder every day.

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The Rachel Maddow Show - Church carnival offers shoot-the-president game

The Rachel Maddow Show - Church carnival offers shoot-the-president game

The owner of "Alien Attack" tells the Lehigh Valley paper:

"Yes, a woman talked to me about it," [Irvin L. Good, Jr.] said Tuesday. "She said she was offended by it. I said if you are, you might want to be. But you're interpreting it as being Obama. We're not interpreting it as Obama. The name of the game is 'Alien Leader.' If you're offended, that's fine, we duly note that."  The priest at our Lady of Mount Carmel says he learned of the game only afterward, when a parishioner complained, and that he'd have stopped it had he known about it.

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The Rachel Maddow Show

The Rachel Maddow Show

Sheriff Antonio Estrada works on the Mexican border, in Arizona's Santa Cruz County. When anti-immigration Republicans start with the tales of Mexican drug gangs taking over white ranches, or a crime rate sent soaring by people sneaking into the U.S., Sheriff Estrada looks around him and says that description doesn't match what he's seeing. Estrada says politicians are trying to scare people.

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