Google refuses official requests to take down YouTube video of police brutality
 

Google refused the request of a U.S. law enforcement agency earlier this year to remove a YouTube video showing police brutality, it has been revealed.

The web giant did not give details about the contents of the video, not pictured, but said it turned down the petition for it to be taken down between January and June this year.

'We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove,' Google wrote in its Transparency Report.

Separately, we received requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials.

'We did not comply with those requests, which we have categorized in this Report as defamation requests.'

The report revealed that Google was bombarded with requests for information and for content to be removed by the U.S. government.

Officials asked for 757 items to be removed in the first half of 2011, with defamation being cited as the reason in 80 per cent of cases.

Some 63 per cent of the requests were accepted, but Google said it declined many requests as they were not backed up by a court order.

'Some requests may not [be] specific enough for us to know what the government wanted us to remove (for example, no URL is listed in the request), and others involve allegations of defamation through informal letters from government agencies rather than a court orders [sic],' it was written in the report.

'We generally rely on courts to decide if a statement is defamatory according to local law.'

Google, which was founded on the philosophy of 'Don't be evil', is thought to be seeking to show that it is a trustworthy site for users.

The U.S. government made the third largest number of requests for content to be removed behind Germany and Brazi.

But the government made more requests for user data than any other country in the world.

In the first six months of 2011, the U.S. government filed 5,950 requests, 93 per cent of which were agreed to.

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What's the news? US police have always been brutal :winkwink:

the web should be open and free

Actually, without making any comments, Google just reposted about the first six months of the year request two days after cops blew a gas cannister in Scott Olsen's head:

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com...-requests.html

Coincidence?

:D

Where is the freedom of speech ?

That's used in Russia to talk about how fucking phony American rights are.

no way police will hurt someone

The UK?s Office of Fair Trading requested the removal of fraudulent ads that linked to scams. We complied with the request and removed 93,360 items in total.

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...nmentrequests/

Why do you put breaks on every line like a fucking idiot?

if you are going to copy and paste news links to get views on your sig because you're a broke ass loser at least do it properly.

they mean hide the truth. fucking pigs

Better send in this asshat again !!! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

are they a tool of search or a tool of subversion?

That's odd, they removed multiple videos of mine with girls dancing in bikinis.

welcome to internet

he gonna arrest every single officer involved! hahahaha yeah go dude

Have you seen that big bad wolf video?? it's nearly obscene. :1orglaugh

but there it is on youtube, million plus views... it's nasty.

...here it is: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XKMoVAObbhE

Fletch why are you using your wifes account?

youtube is full of shit, they take down my videos making fun of JW, that was up for two years, fuck youtube

Why should google take it down? Is it illegal? Nope. Keep it up.

"Democracy" and "freedom of speech" are urban legends for imbeciles.

But actually they aren't, right? :)

With his one pair of handcuffs... :1orglaugh

Link: http://www.google.com/transparencyre.../US/?p=2011-06

Observations on Content Removal Requests

We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove. Separately, we received requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. We did not comply with those requests, which we have categorized in this Report as defamation requests.

Yup. Actually banned an account of mine for the same thing. :Oh crap

Pigs. They are out of control.

The freedom of speech is still there. These are requests, not orders... And thank god google is not complying with them!!!

:-)


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Google should forward all those videos to the President, the Department of Homeland Security, all of the justices on the Supreme Court, and every single police department in the country with a clear message: Do something about this shit because everyone else is watching.

But if they DO happen to get an order, the videos are gone.

Funny how it takes a court order to remove violence from Youtube, but any asshat can file a complaint and have a sexy girl dancing in her undies video deleted.

Violence good - human body bad. (Unless that body is being shot, tasered, or broken to pieces - then its all fine).

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Sad thing is: they've been doing something about it. They've been making new rules, regulations, changing bylaws, digging up old unrelated laws etc to go after people who film acts of police brutality. :(

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh Awesome.

Based on the reports I have heard about this, it would appear that law enforcement was asking Google/YouTube to remove things without a court order, and did not fall under DMCA guidelines. Should that be the case, Google did the right thing.

If (whatever) was so illegal or wrong, law enforcement should have no issue using the tax payers money and getting a court order to have this removed. I believe this is referred to as 'due process'. Same as they can't get access to your email on a "request" they must have a court order. Additionally, to get the court order they must PROVE suspicion of whatever they are looking for.

This is how the law is supposed to work.
:2 cents:

Great news.. so we can show people on Youtube getting the shit kicked out of them but not some titty.

God forbid you have a nipple slip but a cracked skull and broken jaw is ok.

Good to know.