Microsoft has been asking Google to censor about 5 million webpages over the last year due to allegedly linking to copyright infringing material and content. A lot of these request are often legit but there are things that do happen from time to time that are mistakes. The recent DMCA notice that Microsoft asked Google to censor were for sites such as BBC, HuffPo, CNN, Wikipedia and many more sites. This is a very big deal since most of these sites are very big companies that are not putting copyright infringing material on the site but was mistakenly placed. The DMCA takedown requests have been rising in the past few years which has really turned the internet into somewhat of a mess. For example Microsoft claimed 65 infringing web pages were distributing Windows 8 without their consent, but nearly half of them had nothing to do with Windows 8 at all. So one question has to be asked is this censorship going too far or do they need to make a better system. What are your thoughts?
