Google Video censors Iraq footage - for US only

[UpInArms]

http://www.theregister.com/2006/02/27/google_censors_us_video/

Last month it was China, this month it’s the United States that a servile Google is doffing its cap to.

The internet search giant’s video service is blocking US viewers from seeing an innocuous piece of Iraq footage that Google delivers to internet users in the rest of the world without any problems.

The footage shows US military personnel detonating a roadside bomb in a controlled explosion. It’s accessible from everywhere except the United States. But US citizens - who bear the human and financial cost of such improvised weapons - are presented with this message:



Alas it's not Google that's doing the censoring - and a big red-faced Oops from The Reg. Google explained last week that uploaders had made the decision not to make the clip available to US internet users.

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When will our government denounce this censorship? :sarcasm:

(edited to put in correct link)

[MADem]

1. You should send this little gem to OLBERMANN!!! n/t

[melm00se]

2. color me dense...

but who is censoring the content?

[Old and In the Way]

3. Probably the Lincoln Group...or some other Bush financed "good news"

provider.

[RB TexLa]

4. The person who uploaded the video chose what countries

could and could not see their uploaded video.

[RB TexLa]

5. Is a very good idea

never know when a country might say "[e-mail]" sent a video to our country that violates our obscenity laws, send him to us now! Or our laws against bashing our national religion or our king.


on edit, I doubt that is really Joe's e-mail, I didn't know it would hyperlink :rofl:

[Skink]

6. Google is the biggest threat we face today.

[951-Riverside]

7. Google Video Censorship - That Isn't

We've had numerous news submissions suggesting that Google is censoring certain videos. After the first submission we dug deeper and found it was a feature, not censorship: users who submit videos to Google are allowed to specify which countries they'd like to prevent seeing the video (under advanced settings). We wondered which website would bite on this without digging deeper: looks like The Register wins the prize.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/72372

[951-Riverside]

8. Read this first

[JHH]

9. Works in Canada

Here is the site
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2053731645001034711&q=big+boom

[RB TexLa]

10. Welcome to DU

:hi: