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Google's restrictions on anti-Islam video illustrate Web firms' control of speech | Nation & World | The Seattle Times

17.9.12

Google's restrictions on anti-Islam video illustrate Web firms' control of speech | Nation & World | The Seattle Times: By Craig Timberg -- Google lists eight reasons on its "YouTube Community Guidelines" page for why it might take down a video. Inciting riots is not among them. But after the Obama administration warned Tuesday that a crude anti-Muslim movie trailer had sparked lethal violence in the Middle East, Google acted.

Days later, controversy over the 14-minute clip from "Innocence of Muslims" was still roiling the Islamic world, with access blocked in Egypt, Libya, India, Indonesia and Afghanistan, keeping it from easy viewing in countries where more than one-quarter of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims live.


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