Google: Government Censorship Requests 'Alarming'

``Google has received more than 1,000 requests from authorities to take down content from its search results or YouTube video in the last six months of 2011, the company said Monday, denouncing what it said was an alarming trend... "It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect -- Western democracies not typically associated with censorship...''