Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor tweets in individual countries, signalling a willingness to co-operate with governments as it expands into new territories. Read the full story

Google has stirred the ire of Twitter after making changes to the way it presents search results in the US. Read the full story

Mosley sues Google, is angry

Watch out, Max Mosley is on the rampage. The ex-Formula 1 boss is now suing Google, because the search engine won’t remove links to the infamous story of his alleged ‘sex party’. Mosley’s taking action against the big G in Germany and France. Incidentally, anyone googling the term ‘orgy’ today, will be greeted with a front page result for, yep, you guessed it, Max Mosley. Nice work there buddy. (Source: The Register)

Sky launching F1 channel

Formula 1 fan? Better make sure you fork out for Sky Sports next season, as the broadcaster will be showing all the races in high definition on its brand spanking new Sky Sports F1 HD channel from March. The most welcome bit of news is that Sky has no plans to interrupt races with adverts, and will also show qualifying and practice sessions. Sky’s deal, in conjunction with the BBC, will expire in 2018. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Littlewoods is evil, pure evil

Curse those intolerable adverts and their capitalist aims! 456 complaints have been made about Littlewoods’ Christmas ad campaign, most on the basis that (DON’T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU ARE A CHILD) they reveal it’s mummy who brought you that Ben 10 action figurine, not Santa. Complainants requested the ad be rescheduled to a time when children are tucked up in bed, remaining blissfully unaware of the lies their parents are telling them, but the ASA – in its aim to destroy the innocence of youth – has ignored these demands. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Google removed 135 videos from YouTube in the first half of this year at the request of British police authorities, reports MediaGuardian.

The web giant complied with the orders, made because of a perceived threat to national security, and experienced a 71 per cent upturn in content removal requests compared to the second half of 2010.

62 more videos were removed due to privacy, security or hate speech issues.

According to the company’s biannual transparency report, private information “about 1,443 British users or accounts was demanded by law enforcement agencies between January and June this year”, says the newspaper.

Google said it complied with 82 per cent of law authority requests in the UK.

(Source: MediaGuardian)

Following news that YouTube is set to bring more original content to its users, the video sharing site has today revealed that films are now available to rent. Read the full story

Google is reportedly set to invest £65m to make YouTube a genuine competitor to major broadcasters. Read the full story

The culture secretary has said that he wants Google to “make life more difficult” for filesharing websites by blocking them, or downgrading their prominence in search results. Read the full story

One of the original founders of MySpace, Tom Anderson, has admitted that he “choked” before Facebook realised the vision he had set out for his own social media network. Read the full story