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Thursday, October 24, 2002

Ben Edelman and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard's Berkman Center have released a report establishing that Google has deleted sites from its French and German editions. Google admits that it removes sites on a case-by-case basis in order to comply with local laws, but Edelman and Zittrain claim that Google has removed more sites than French and German law require. (Thanks to Declan McCullagh in News.com.)