Published on Jun 18, 2012 by TheYoungTurks ; "There has been an alarming rise in the number of times governments attempted to censor the internet in last six months, according to a report from Google. Since the search engine last published its bi-annual transparency report, it said it had seen a troubling increase in requests to remove political content. Many of these requests came from western democracies not typically associated with censorship...".* Some countries mentioned in the report include Spain, Germany, Canada, and the UK.
