<story><title>Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_denies_takedown_requests_this_time.php#.TqnuLZnzTGk.hackernews</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text>&lt;i&gt;But Google&apos;s record is spotty. Just this month, it handed over a WikiLeaks volunteer&apos;s Gmail data to the U.S. government, which used an old and controversial law to request it without a warrant from a judge. Google is pushing for updated laws ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This seems like an absurdly high standard if obeying the law and pushing for updated laws isn&apos;t enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickmb</author><text>Have we collectively forgotten the time when journalists went to jail rather than reveal their sources, and publishers didn&apos;t waiver in their support?&lt;p&gt;However understandable Google&apos;s position may be, fighting the law is not an &quot;absurdly high standard&quot;. Sometimes it&apos;s simply the right thing to do.&lt;p&gt;This &quot;obey the law, obey the government&quot; attitude is a post-9/11 thing we really need to get over.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_denies_takedown_requests_this_time.php#.TqnuLZnzTGk.hackernews</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text>&lt;i&gt;But Google&apos;s record is spotty. Just this month, it handed over a WikiLeaks volunteer&apos;s Gmail data to the U.S. government, which used an old and controversial law to request it without a warrant from a judge. Google is pushing for updated laws ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This seems like an absurdly high standard if obeying the law and pushing for updated laws isn&apos;t enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextparadigms</author><text>Google actually fought so they don&apos;t have to give the data of that Wikileaks guy, but I think they had no choice in the end.</text></comment>