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Politics prime target in take-down requests: Google:
Political commentary remains a prime target as governments increase the number of requests for Google to remove material from the reach of Internet users.
"It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect -- Western democracies not typically associated with censorship."
The number of requests from the United States doubled in the second half of last year. Ukraine, Jordan and Bolivia showed up for the first time on the list of countries out to have online material removed, according to Google.
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