A U.S. diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks shows that the U.S. State Department has pressed several times on Google, asking the search engine to republish videos of Egyptian activists who had been removed from its platform of YouTube video . Dated November 2008, the cable reports that the embassy in Cairo was contacted by a blogger in late 2007, presumably the activist Wael Abbas freedom of expression.
The latter had published on his YouTube account several videos showing torture in Egyptian police stations, before these videos from being deleted by Google and the account deleted. The general conditions of YouTube prohibit the publication of violent videos. The embassy had attempted to contact Google, but received no response.
The blogger's YouTube account was reopened in December 2007, while recognizing Google's policy of violent images "had led to the removal of videos that are a testimony on the violation of human rights, because the context was not clear. " The videos were not delivered online directly from Google, but Abbas was able to post them again without being removed - with a warning prohibiting their consultation to minors.
The same month, "the [Bureau of Human Rights State Department] and the embassy in Cairo tried to persuade Google to restore the YouTube account [another activist of human rights] after a similar incident, "recounts the diplomatic cable. "We believe that a similar intervention of the State Department with help of Google back online in their account.
It is an influential blogger and an activist for human rights, and we want do everything in our power to help publicize the abuse by the police, "details the telegram. GOOGLE, WEAPON OF THE AMERICAN DIPLOMACY The relationship between Google and the U.S. State Department were particularly complex.
The United States considers Google as a strategic business at many levels, and do not hesitate to know. In early 2010, when Google announced that it had been the target of a massive campaign of piracy from China, the U.S. State Department had intervened to support the search, a few tens of minutes after the release of Google News , indicating coordination between the company and the department.
Hillary Clinton it was then taken directly to the Chinese government, accusing it of being behind these attacks and threatening China hint of retaliation. As a "cradle" of the Internet, the U.S. has the "responsibility" to ensure proper operation, believed then Secretary of State. In a speech of rare violence, Clinton denounced the censorship and repression against bloggers in China but also ...
Tunisia and Egypt. The unwavering support for American diplomacy by Google also has an economic side: in China, one of the few countries where the American search engine is much in the minority against the national engine Baidu, the United States are also attempting to obtain opening up the market - which would primarily benefit U.S.
companies. A doctrine already at work under the Clinton and Bush administrations, backed by Mrs. Clinton, for whom democracy, freedom of speech and market economy are a whole. 
The latter had published on his YouTube account several videos showing torture in Egyptian police stations, before these videos from being deleted by Google and the account deleted. The general conditions of YouTube prohibit the publication of violent videos. The embassy had attempted to contact Google, but received no response.
The blogger's YouTube account was reopened in December 2007, while recognizing Google's policy of violent images "had led to the removal of videos that are a testimony on the violation of human rights, because the context was not clear. " The videos were not delivered online directly from Google, but Abbas was able to post them again without being removed - with a warning prohibiting their consultation to minors.
The same month, "the [Bureau of Human Rights State Department] and the embassy in Cairo tried to persuade Google to restore the YouTube account [another activist of human rights] after a similar incident, "recounts the diplomatic cable. "We believe that a similar intervention of the State Department with help of Google back online in their account.
It is an influential blogger and an activist for human rights, and we want do everything in our power to help publicize the abuse by the police, "details the telegram. GOOGLE, WEAPON OF THE AMERICAN DIPLOMACY The relationship between Google and the U.S. State Department were particularly complex.
The United States considers Google as a strategic business at many levels, and do not hesitate to know. In early 2010, when Google announced that it had been the target of a massive campaign of piracy from China, the U.S. State Department had intervened to support the search, a few tens of minutes after the release of Google News , indicating coordination between the company and the department.
Hillary Clinton it was then taken directly to the Chinese government, accusing it of being behind these attacks and threatening China hint of retaliation. As a "cradle" of the Internet, the U.S. has the "responsibility" to ensure proper operation, believed then Secretary of State. In a speech of rare violence, Clinton denounced the censorship and repression against bloggers in China but also ...
Tunisia and Egypt. The unwavering support for American diplomacy by Google also has an economic side: in China, one of the few countries where the American search engine is much in the minority against the national engine Baidu, the United States are also attempting to obtain opening up the market - which would primarily benefit U.S.
companies. A doctrine already at work under the Clinton and Bush administrations, backed by Mrs. Clinton, for whom democracy, freedom of speech and market economy are a whole.
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