[liberationtech] google follows twitter

[James Losey]

Hi Robert and Jillian,

Thanks you both for your input. If I understand correctly, Twitter has a
bit of a "wink wink nudge nudge <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ona-RhLfRfc>"
suggestion that if users can pretend they are in another country then their
tweets have a significantly greater likely hood of not being censored by
said country. But if Google users are now being assigned to the appropriate
ccTLD is this a new priority to institute geographic identification and are
there reasonably easy ways to circumvent?

Best,
J

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>wrote:

> 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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