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...recent Harvard Law School report by Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Jonathan L. Zittrain has found that the French and German versions of Google, the Internet’s most popular search engine, have been filtering more than 100 controversial websites from their searches. Without being warned of it, many Google users have been blocked from various far right-wing and anti-semitic pages—some of which the two governments have deemed illegal under various post-World War II censorship laws...
Released Thursday by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at HLS by a team that earlier this fall unearthed evidence of extensive Internet censorship by the Chinese government, the report details the exclusion of content considered sensitive or illegal in France and Germany from certain foreign-language versions of Google...
First-year HLS student Benjamin F. Edelman ’02, who authored the report with Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Jonathan L. Zittrain, said some of the filtered sites actually violate French and German post-World War II statutes against hate speech and Holocaust denial and are thus “genuinely illegal...
...report on Google filtering came in the midst of an ongoing Berkman study of China’s Internet blocking practices. Sharp-eyed “netizens” first alerted Zittrain and Edelman to discrepancies in French and German Google search results, and the two ran checks on other sites known or presumed to contain controversial material...
...don’t want to see college radio die or precluded online,” said Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman assistant professor for entrepreneurial legal studies...