Don't be evil

Irgendwie bemüht sich Google doch, seinem Motto treu zu bleiben. Google veröffentlicht ein Government Request Tool, das Regierungsanfragen an Google dokumentiert, nach Ländern geordnet.

"Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly
receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove
content from our services, or provide information about users of our
services and products. The map shows the number of requests that we
received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009."

Immerhin beruft man sich auf die Menschenrechte: 

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights
states that "everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas
through any media and regardless of frontiers." Written in 1948, the
principle applies aptly to today's Internet -- one of the most
important means of free expression in the world. Yet government
censorship of the web is growing rapidly: from the outright blocking
and filtering of sites, to court orders limiting access to information
and legislation forcing companies to self-censor content.

 Dass dieses Vorgehen nicht nur für China begrüßenswert ist, zeigt übrigens das hier: die Pläne der Contentindustrie für besseren Schutz gegen Raubkopierer. Aber hallo.