Broadcast Electric Field Radio Station Strength

 

In addition, while concerns rage about the state obtaining the power to shut down websites and remove web content with no recourse, Google is already following orders from the federal government in the majority of cases in removing videos from its You Tube platform, including takedowns on the grounds that the videos contain “government criticism”.

Google-owned You Tube has complied with thousands of requests worldwide to remove political protest videos that are clearly not in violation of any copyright or national security interests and do not constitute defamation.

The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information increasing by 70 per cent. Google complied in removing the material in 63% of the cases.

One such example was You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.

Google has also targeted our own You Tube channel for termination on numerous occasions merely for posting legitimate news content, such as the Wikileaks Apache helicopter footage, which appears on hundreds of other You Tube channels.

Crucially, Google has for years censored its own search results subject to the mandates of different governments across the world. SOPA and PIPA are merely an effort to codify into US law what is already taking place in more authoritarian countries, with the willing participation of Google itself.

Many other web giants are also moving to censor the Internet, including VeriSign, who recently demanded the power to terminate websites deemed “abusive” with no legal oversight whatsoever.

Public wi-fi systems stationed in airports, train stations, libraries, schools, and workplaces also routinely censor political websites.

Who needs government to censor the Internet when large corporations are already doing it? Amidst all the anti-SOPA rage, we should not be so naive as to give the likes of Google a pass when considering the totality of threats posed to free speech on the world wide web.

We encourage people to at least be aware of alternatives to Google, search websites that will not enact SOPA-like censorship policies, such as StartPage.com. Watch a video below from November 2010 in which Alex Jones explains how Google is censoring the web – without the need for SOPA.

Similar/Related Articles

1. SOPA/PIPA Battle Rages: Tell Congress We Will Not Accept Censorship
2. SOPA: Endgame Is Total Internet Censorship
3. SOPA shelved until ‘consensus’ is found
4. Why We Must Stop SOPA
5. SOPA Is “Unconstitutional”, Would “Criminalize” the Internet … Modeled On China
6. Class Action Protest: SOPA rebels join forces on web blackout
7. The Secret Behind SOPA
8. Firefox Add-On Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking
9. Report: Google Seeking To Cut Net Censorship Deals
10. Google: Murdoch Can Keep His News Corp Stories
11. Ron Paul blasts SOPA on the 2012 presidential campaign trail
12. SOPA: Co-sponsors Defect, Backtrack After Blackout

Uppdaterad: fredag 20 januari 2012 klockan 15:10

• Pro 93 Radio Scanner Mods

  These are radio modifications for some of the Radio Shack scanners. These are currently modifications to unlock the 800 Mhz frequencies that were locked out from the ...

• Radio Shack Driver Downloads

• E5900b Phone Radio Frequency Interruption

• Degree In Radiologic Technology

  Although many radiologic technology degrees are two-year programs resulting in an Associate of Applied Science degree, it is possible to earn a bachelor's degree in ...

• Mecora P2p Radio