Last Monday Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said that, 'Internet giant Google's tussles with some governments over Internet censorship could get worse', adding he feared his own colleagues faced mounting danger of occasional arrest and torture.
After the "Arab spring" saw revolutionary crowds largely organized over the Internet topple leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. Although with mixed success then also, Governments in other authoritarian states have moved to try to lock down Internet dissent.
Google has long had issues with China over restricted use of the Internet and partially pulled out of the world's largest Internet market by users last year over censorship concerns and a computer hacking attempt it said it traced to the country.
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