Way to Go Google! Well...Sort of

Google recently refused a U.S. law enforcement's agency to remove a Youtube video showing police brutality, according to the Huffington Post.

That's great for Google and even better for our fight to end police brutality and hold police officers accountable for their actions. But this story now takes a turn for the worse.

Google has removed 63 percent of the U.S. government's requests. They say that "generally" a court order is the only way that they can comply. These agencies usually cite defamation as the cause of concern for these videos.

Since when does truth equal defamation?

I have a great idea for these agencies about the removal of defamatory content about police brutality. Go to the source and stop it. If police officers would stop brutalizing citizens, then there would be nothing to record and post on the internet.

Another interesting fact of this report is that the U.S. ranks as number three in the world for the highest number of content removal requests. It is behind Brazil and Germany, but ahead of China. The U.S. also ranks at number one for the amount of requests for user data.

Wow.