It is my contention that spurious accusations of copyright infringement can be used to suppress videos that are not liked, in certain circles, and that YouTube’s reporting procedure favours the accuser over the accused, who is not even given the minimum amount of information necessary to be able to challenge any claim, let alone a false one.
Anthony Lawson
At least with China they have reason for censoring Google as it is well known that Google has ties to the CIA that works with CIA sponsored “dissidents” in China including the “Al Qaeda” backed Uighers who I would imagine like Microsoft the NSA helped in its development.
Google records your IP address when you use its search engine that’s why I use ixquick.com.
I would imagine it is the same with YouTube as well.
@jack: another option to screw google is scroogle:
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm