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09/30/11(Fri)19:34 No.9838679>>9838672 part2 of that: The
British government doesn’t want this kind of information going viral in
the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the
infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that
forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because
of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay.
When viewers in
the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with the
message, “This content is not available in your country due to a
government removal request.”
We then click through to learn that,
“YouTube occasionally receives requests from governments around the
world to remove content from our site, and as a result, YouTube may
block specific content in order to comply with local laws in certain
countries.”
You can also search by country to discover that
Google, the owner of You Tube, has complied with the majority of
requests from governments, particularly in the United States and the UK,
not only to remove You Tube videos, but also specific web search terms
and thousands of “data requests,” meaning demands for information that
would reveal the true identity of a You Tube user. Google claims that
the information sent to governments is “needed for legitimate criminal
investigations,” but whether these “data requests” have been backed up
by warrants is not divulged by the company. |