ZDNet Austrialia reports that Google has removed controversial political and religious websites from search result listings. The article focuses on google.de and google.fr. They have removed white power sites from these versions of google because of legal action posed by German and French groups. Certain speech (such as pro-Nazi material) doesn\’t enjoy the same protection in those countries as it does in the US. Read the full story.
Related link: Chillingeffects.org – a website that monitors \”the legal climate for Internet activity.\” Many copyright, IP, free speech, and filtering issues are discussed.
Original link via MeFi.
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