Google and the Anti-Islam Video

Free speech on the internet is being challenged by the recent video, “Innocence of Muslims,” that was produced in the United States, but is circulating the internet.  Google, the owner of YouTube, has been under pressure to remove the video due to the inflammatory and offensive content.  In some countries, including Libya and Egypt, Google did remove it because it violated laws in those countries, however according to Google it still wasn’t considered hate speech under their rules.  The article “On Web, a Fine Line on Free Speech Across the Globe,” written by Somini Sengupta, says that each internet company has the right to censor what they want according to their rules, but they also try to comply with the laws of the individual countries that they operate in.  Since Google found that it wasn’t hate speech, they have kept it up on the internet in most countries, including the United States, because it is protected under the first amendment.