Law Enforcement Agencies Want Google to Remove YouTube Videos Showing Brutality

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Google has been asked by a U.S. law enforcement agency to remove several videos exposing police brutality from YouTube, the company revealed in its latest update to an online transparency report.

Another request filed by a different agency required Google to remove videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials.

The two requests were among 92 submissions for content removal by various authorities in the U.S. filed between January and June 2011. Both were rejected by Google along with 27 percent of the submissions.

The search giant says the overall number of requests for content removal it receives from governmental agencies has spiked, along with requests to disclose the private data of Google users.

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[Squideey]

They're replacing their reputation of brutality with censorship? GENIUS.

[FireFish]

Isn't that, like, unconstitutional or something?

[Bloody Mary]

Someone will just make an underground site where the videos in question will be hosted.

[viper30000]

Isn't that, like, unconstitutional or something?

I am sure it is.

[Jairo]

Isn't that, like, unconstitutional or something?

yes
it is

[Qwepir]

I like watching videos of police brutality. Then I can close my eyes and imagine I am in the oppressive police state I have always wanted to live in.

[Burger]

Isn't that, like, unconstitutional or something?

Freedom of the press.

[Grumpy]

It isn't unconstitutional. If you had for example, a video of police brutality showing on a TV/Website you personally owned and they forced you to remove it then it would be unconstitutional. However, it seems they are just "asking" and Google/Youtube can regulate the videos they way they want to in the end.

[Jacob/Lee]

Crack police operatives are holding Google executives at gunpoint. The videos will be removed eventually.

[Blastdown]

The videos will be removed eventually.

nothing a good ol' repost can't fix!

[Visage]

I always rofl when you watch a cop show and like the cop runs up and side checks a brother and punches him in the face like 3 times and then tosses him around and the commentator is like "Thinking the fugitive had a gun the cop had no other choice but to take him down quickly for fear of his own safety and that of everyone elses, in the end the culprit was subdued and no one was hurt thanks to this courageous and heroic officer of the law." Not really related to this so much but I just thought of it.