Google censoring web content

Researchers have found that Google is removing controversial sites.

[mbennie]

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Google acccused of censoring [webmasterworld.com] Mar 21, 2002
Filtering racist websites? [webmasterworld.com] July 22, 2002
Google censored nazi page for germany... [webmasterworld.com] July 27, 2002

Google has offices both in Germany and France. This means that for their google.de and google.fr domains that target local audiences, they are subject to the respective national legislation. They don't have a choice in the matter other than to follow the law, or to face legal repercussions.