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Angry Jesus writes:
"The Irish Times reports that Google has given high level censorship powers to government security agencies in the UK.
Google has given British security officials special permissions for its YouTube video site, allowing them to have content instantly reviewed if they think that it threatens national security. They already had the power to request removal illegal content, now they can flag legal but "unsavory" content en masse.
They are in part a response to a blitz from UK security authorities to persuade internet service providers, search engines and social media sites to censor more of their own content for extremist material even if it does not always break existing laws."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Open4D on Saturday March 15 2014, @12:06PM
On reading this I was reminded of the first episode [wikipedia.org] of Black Mirror [wikipedia.org], where the Prime Minister is publicly blackmailed via a You Tube video, despite it being taken down after just 9 minutes.