Google: The Open Access Ideal and Compliance with Foreign Laws

In Google’s Gatekeepers, a New York Times Magazine feature article, Jeffrey Rosen (George Washington) examines Google's attempts to provide open access to online content while complying with the demands of governments interested in censoring that content. Such demands range from denying access to Holocaust-denial sites in the German and French versions of Google because denial of the Holocaust is againat the law in both countries to blocking access to YouTube videos that insult Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey because that's a violation of Turkish law. And then there is China... [JH]