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According to a transparency report released by Google, western governments, including that of the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, CNN reported.
據美國有線新聞網報道，谷歌公司日前發布透明度報告稱，包括美國在內的西方國家正大力審查網絡搜索結果和YouTube視頻。
"It's alarming not only because the right to free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests are coming from countries you might not expect this from - Western democracies not typically associated with censorship," said Dorothy Chou, a senior policy analyst at Google.
谷歌高級政策分析師桃樂茜•周表示：“自由言論受到威脅令人擔憂，不僅如此，西方民主國家本與審查制度無緣，它們也發出請求刪除言論，讓人始料不及。”
During the second half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos, according to the report. The tech company did comply, at least in part, with 42% of the removal requests coming from the U.S.
報告稱，2011年下半年，美國相關機構要求谷歌刪除6192條搜索結果、博客網貼、在線視頻等內容，谷歌公司也的確根據要求，刪除了至少42%的相關內容。
The company said: "We review each request to make sure that it complies with both the spirit and the letter of the law, and we may refuse to produce information or in some cases will try to narrow down the request."
谷歌表示：“我們會審查每份請求，保證其與當地法律意旨及明文規定相一致，某些情況下，我們會拒絕提供信息或對其要求不予完全滿足。”
