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On May 14th, 2019 with 91 comments
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has defended the company's plan to build a censored version of its search engine in China. From a report: In an interview with...
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On January 23rd, 2019 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from France 24: The Microsoft-run search engine Bing was unavailable in mainland China late Wednesday, raising concerns...
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On August 18th, 2018 with 135 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reports from earlier this month claimed Google was working on products for the Chinese market, detailing...
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On August 8th, 2018 with 63 comments
Google is using search samples from a Beijing-based website it owns to make blacklists for the censored search engine it is developing for China. Google's...
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On March 1st, 2016 with 197 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In a bid to protect young internet users from inappropriate content, a new visual search engine designed for children has launched...
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On November 29th, 2015 with 529 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Various sources report Israel's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely meeting with representatives of Google and...
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On August 20th, 2015 with 179 comments
Mark Wilson writes, drolly, that the so-called right to be forgotten "has proved somewhat controversial," and expands on that with a new twist in a post at...
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On July 23rd, 2015 with 188 comments
Artem Tashkinov writes: We've all known for a very long time that DCMA takedown requests are often dubious and even more often outright wrong but in a new turn...
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On June 28th, 2015 with 146 comments
An anonymous reader writes, quoting the BBC's Internet Blog: "Since a European Court of Justice ruling last year, individuals have the right to request that...
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On June 13th, 2015 with 337 comments
Lauren Weinstein writes: I've been waiting for this, much the way one waits for a violent case of food poisoning. France is now officially demanding that...
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On February 24th, 2015 with 285 comments
Ellie K writes As of 23 March 2015, Google will remove blogs on its Blogger platform that don't conform to its new anti-adult policies. This is an abrupt...
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On November 27th, 2014 with 193 comments
mpicpp writes with this news from the BBC: Google is under fresh pressure to expand the 'right to be forgotten' to its international .com search tool. A panel...
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On October 19th, 2014 with 113 comments
Martin Spamer writes with word that the BBC is to publish a continually updated list of its articles removed from Google under the controversial 'right to be...
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On September 23rd, 2014 with 82 comments
wabrandsma sends this news from Tech In Asia:
Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo is now blocked in China. On Sunday DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel...
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On September 3rd, 2014 with 116 comments
IonOtter (629215) writes Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, has challenged a Cease & Desist letter from Sundance Vacations, a seller of time-shares with...
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On July 27th, 2014 with 186 comments
The Wall Street Journal lists 26 questions that Google and other search providers have been asked (in a meeting in Brussels earlier this week) to answer for EU...
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On July 17th, 2014 with 64 comments
mpicpp (3454017) writes with news that Bing has joined Google in removing search results upon request by EU citizens. From the article: The company has asked...
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On March 28th, 2014 with 284 comments
jfruh writes: "You will probably not be surprised to learn that Chinese search giant Baidu censors a wide range of content, particularly political material...
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On November 7th, 2013 with 180 comments
Virtucon writes "This one goes to the old adage 'closing the stable door after the horse bolted.' A French court on Wednesday ruled that Google must remove...
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On June 1st, 2013 with 186 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Search engines such as Google should do more to restrict access to online pornography, a government adviser on child internet...
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On January 7th, 2013 with 96 comments
judgecorp writes "Google has abandoned its policy of warning Chinese users against keywords that trigger censorship. The search giant had added a warning that...
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On December 13th, 2012 with 39 comments
hackingbear writes "One of the Chinese Web censorship's central features has long been blocking searches for the names of top leaders to maintain their public...
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On September 23rd, 2012 with 279 comments
legolas writes "The official state online censorship body in Iran has reported that Google and Gmail are going to be blocked effective immediately, ostensibly...
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On April 10th, 2012 with 301 comments
suraj.sun writes "Iran topped a recent list of repressive regimes that most aggressively restrict Internet freedom. The list, published by Reporters Without...
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On March 27th, 2012 with 154 comments
It's not just Japan that wants to regulate how Google displays search results: judgecorp writes "A committee of British MPs and peers has asked Google to...
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On January 6th, 2012 with 343 comments
New submitter Lexx Greatrex writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Google had been sued by insurance company Lyonnaise de Garantie, which was offended by...
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