U.S. GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP REQUESTS SKYROCKET:

In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos, according to the report. That’s up 718% compared with the 757 such items that U.S. agencies asked Google to remove in the six months prior.

How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?