Guardian whitewash Google's record

This article by the Guardian on the Spanish government’s attempt to get Google to remove potentially defamatory articles from its search database was a fantastic piece of corporate PR, but entirely useless as a piece of serious journalism.

The article tells us that Google are very, very worried about restrictions on freedom of speech.

"We are disappointed by the actions of the Spanish privacy regulator. Spanish and European law rightly hold the publisher of the material responsible for its content,” says Peter Barron, Google's director of external relations for Europe.

"Requiring intermediaries like search engines to censor material published by others would have a profound, chilling effect on free expression without protecting people's privacy."

These quotes are accompanied by another source concerned by the move to censor Google.

Any serious article on this subject would have considered Google’s record on censorship, including its long standing policy to censor its content in China to uphold the Chinese government’s one party rule and shield it from criticism over its human rights abuses.