Obscured websites, removed video, user control. Practices on the agenda of the fragile democracy in countries far away from the Old Continent. However, even those who have made freedom of expression as its own pillar, hide a few skeletons in the closet. This is the case of the Government of Great Britain that in only 2010, it asked the computer giant Google to remove a cool of almost 94thousand informatics contents such as images, web pages, videos and blogs. Second only to the United States, the Kingdom of Her Majesty appears to be among the first also regards the request for personal information. Two considerations arise spontaneously. In the case of England and other EU countries that have made such requests, there is no way to tell if the darkening of some portals are always grounded in violation of national laws. Then, in the states where online activity is more widespread it might be expected statistically more illegal perpetuated through web 2.0. The report released by Google itself does not answer these questions, but it puts more attention on the delicate balance between rights and new technologies.
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