Freedom of Speech, Google and World's Governments

The map does not show what governments were interested in getting information on or why they wanted certain removals - so all it tells us that there is a good bit of activity - wish I had time to research the more complete picture.

clipped from www.google.com Government requests directed to Google and YouTube 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, with certain limitations.