Censorship by Google is Google Inc.'s removal or omission of information from its services or subsidiary companies, such as YouTube in order to comply with the company's policies or government censorship laws.
Google commonly censors search results to comply with Digital Millennium Copyright Act-related legal complaints.
In 2002 Google was found to have censored websites that provided information critical of Scientology, in compliance with the Un...
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Censorship by Google is Google Inc.'s removal or omission of information from its services or subsidiary companies, such as YouTube in order to comply with the company's policies or government censorship laws.
Google commonly censors search results to comply with Digital Millennium Copyright Act-related legal complaints.
In 2002 Google was found to have censored websites that provided information critical of Scientology, in compliance with the United States' DMCA legislation. Google replaced the banned results with links to the DMCA complaint that caused the site to be removed. The DMCA complaint contains the site to be removed, and the organizations that requested the removal. The publicity stemming from this incident was the impetus for Google's making public of the DMCA notices on the Chilling Effects archive, which archives legal threats of all sorts made against Internet users and Internet sites.
Google also censors its search suggestions in the United States. "Dirty" search...
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