Google the world’s biggest search engine has rejected White House request to remove the controversial movie clip which provoked violent protests across the Muslim world. YouTube movie clip which Muslims consider blasphemous to Islam has ignited anti-American protests around the world.
The internet company said it would comply with local law rather than bowing down to political pressure. It said that after blocking it on Wednesday in Egypt and Libya in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. embassies have been stormed by protestors, it was censoring the video in India and Indonesia keeping in view the sensitive situation in the two countries.
Google insists that the video was within its guidelines. The guidelines can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines.
It must be noted that the film’s producer, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a 55-year old Egyptian Coptic Christian living in Southern California was convicted in 2010 for bank fraud and released from prison on probation last June.