Google continues to be an open company when it comes to censorship and the like and has released its biannual Global Transparency Report which details take-down requests by people. In the past six months, Google said it saw an "alarming" number of Government requests, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 for the period.
Google said that they received 461 court orders for the removal of 6,989 items, of which they agreed to 68% of those orders. They also received 546 informal requests and agreed to remove content from 46% of those. The study leaves out Iran and China who block Google content without notification to the search giant.
Some of the requests not granted include a Polish demand that an article critical of a development agency be taken down, a Spanish demand that 270 links to articles and blogs critical of public figures and a Canadian request that a YouTube video of a man urinating on his passport and flushing it down the toilet be removed. None were complied with.
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