[liberationtech] google follows twitter

[Robert Guerra]

Jillian,

Yes Google has been dealing with content (ie. blocking) on a per country basis for a while.  what is new is that they will now direct users to their Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD)'s. In so doing they are moving the user to the jurisdiction of the ccTLD operator - and any legal framework, requirements and/or other regulations that they may have.

So the user is being brought closer to a national level authority, something which wasn't the case before.

Robert


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On 2012-02-02, at 6:45 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:

> Sort of...Google has been managing content removal on a per-country basis
> for YouTube for awhile now, if I recall.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Eric S Johnson <crates at oneotaslopes.org>wrote:
> 
>> "Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free
>> expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility
>> in
>> complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing
>> ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will
>> limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due
>> to
>> a specific country's law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en
>> <http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2402711>
>> &answer=2402711
>> 
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