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Google starting to censor blogs

Friday, February 3, 2012

Google starting to censor blogs


Following Twitter’s decision last month to begin censoring the messages of users based on restrictions of their respective countries, Google has followed suit and announced that it will begin a similar practice with its own blogging service.

Blogger, the web-log service run by Internet giant Google, will begin censoring the personal posts of its users in order to comply with local laws rather than encouraging an internationally open Internet. While the company has previously allowed users of the World Wide Web to post wide-open opinions on its Blogger site, it will now allow individual jurisdictions to govern what can and can’t be posted on the Web..... MORE
SourceRT.com

URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/google-starts-censoring-blogs-375/

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