This seems like a issue related to this proposed law:
Google Refused Law Enforcement Request To Pull Police Brutality Video
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Of the 757 items that Google was asked to remove by the U.S. government in the first half of 2011, eighty percent were motivated by allegations of defamation.
The company complied with 63 percent of the U.S. government's requests. Google noted that it may decline to comply with requests to remove content because an agency has failed to obtain a court order.
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Between January and June 2011, American government entities filed 5,950 requests for information on Google users, 93 percent of which the company complied with.
The U.S. topped charts as the government that placed the third highest number of content removal requests, behind Brazil and Germany, but ahead of China. The U.S. also put in more requests for user data than any other country in the world.
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