Google Inc (GOOG) has recently started to get involved with governmental affairs, such as the threat to ending GMail in germany due to new privacy laws. Recently, Google took it upon themselves to get in contact with US Trade Officials and ask them to start treating the internet as more of a international trade system, which would stop all the internet censorship laws and oput a damper on all the fuss over such happenings.

Google is worried about it’s advertising driven business model being curbed by all the censorship that is taking place all over the world, mainly in Asia and the Middle East. Google wants governments to consider the issue in not so much of a political view, but an economic one as it would seem probable that the more censorship we have, the less business activity is flowing on the internet.

We do support Google’s cause. As internet censorship may seem like a good idea, but once again the economical factor, as well has the people factor, have been left out and governments in countries such as China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore and Thailand, among others, are ever increasingly blocking websites. Thailand continues to block YouTube after several videos appeared in April, criticizing the country’s monarch.

It’s a scary world out there, and the battle for our rights is even more scary.

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