Apparently its one rule for one ...
... and another rule for Google bosses:
http://gawker.com/5477611/googles-ceo-demanded-his-mistress-take-down-her-blog-source
mess with Eric and his lawyers will take down your blog.
A judge in Brazil has ordered the arrest of a Google exec after the company refused to remove YouTube videos that hit out at a mayoral candidate in the Latin American country. Google is fighting attempts by the authorities to cuff Fabio Coelho, who lives in San Paulo and is the firm's director in Brazil. His LinkedIn profile …
Everyone is high on the pixie dust on the incredible growth of the developing BRIC countries but eventually the double digit growth will slow and the fundamental problems with the political systems in these countries are going to show why they still haven't joined the 1st world club.
"One can assume you use the native name for any foreign city then?"
Can one assume that you refer to South America's largest metropolis as Saint Paul then? And do you find it compares favourably or unfavourably in terms of human development against its two large coastal neighbours, January River to the North and Good Airs to the South?
It's not surprising to me that demands are being made all over the world to remove this or that bit of free expression. Countries like the US and UK which espouse freedom of speech either don't robustly respect it themselves or do not provide a robust response to demands from other countries when leaders of those countries demand the US or UK restrain freedom of expression.
At the moment we have Pakistani leaders demanding the removal of material with a response of diplomatic weasel words from US leaders. Weasel words are the 'correct' diplomatic response but are understandably regarded as being soft - and so not really meant - because in everyday speech the stuff we all hear we expect to hear more robust words it we we really take an opinion. Sure the Pakistani leaders are playing to their electorate but so are western leaders.
Or in the UK we're struggling to extradite a terror suspect to the US but gladly handing over a university student for allowing a web to contain links to copyright material. Really? We can't handle this in the UK?
No, it's no wonder officials anywhere in the world feel it appropriate to constrain freedom of expression.