Google Fights Censorship?

Google has launched Transparency Report, a set of tools — including an interactive map — that shows which governments have asked for information about users or requested Google to censor or take down content in a certain time frame.

http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/googles-transparency-report/

http://mashable.com/2011/10/27/google-police-brutality-videos/?WT.mc_id=obinsite

Publishing Personal Contact Information? yes, no, or depends on who...

It seems to me through our exploration of questions in the newspaper publishing world, there are always three answers (and sometimes more) to every ethical dilemma: yes, publish it - no, do not publish it - and, hmm it depends.

This week, in the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, Gawker has published the phone number of Vikram Pandit, the C.E.O. of Citigroup. Last week at a Fortune conference, Pandit announced he would "be happy to talk to" Wall Street protestors "any time they want," so Gawker decided to see if he could put his money where his mouth was and published his cell phone and office number for all to see.

Is this ethically sound? Normally, I think we all might say no unless our interviewee asked us to or confirmed we could, or, if it was relevant to the story. But this is something quite different, and we're seeing quite a bit on unconventionality with the 'Occupy' protests...