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French, German Versions of Google Censor Material on Controversial Web Sites.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2002
By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 25--Researchers at Harvard have found that the French and German versions of the popular Google Internet search engine are quietly censoring information on controversial Web sites.
It's the latest in a series of reports about global Internet censorship practices from Ben Edelman, a Harvard law student, and Jonathan Zittrain, faculty codirector of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. This year Edelman and Zittrain issued reports documenting censorship in Saudi Arabia and China's efforts to screen out information from Google's service there.
In the Chinese case, the government used its own filtering system to block some Google pages; the company...
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