20100212 Google als Zensor von Regimen und westlichen Demokratien (eng.)

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Pakistan, Iran, and... Australia? Let's censor Google!
By Nate Anderson | Last updated February 12, 2010 6:26 AM
Mocking the king has a long and glorious history

Imagine what being Google must be like. Since the start of the year, the company has roiled up world affairs with its decision to stop censoring Chinese search results, got the NSA to help it out with security, launched a new social media service called Buzz, and dropped a bombshell on the US by announcing a new 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed that will serve up to 500,000 people.

Crazy stuff, right? And it all happened in the last six weeks. But zoom in a bit closer and look at what Google had to deal with just this week and on just one topic: censorship.