In a hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives United States of America in Washington on Wednesday, the vice president of Google, Nicole Wong, cited the ban on blogs calling for the boycott of products of Catalonia – determined by a Spanish judge – as an example of censorship.

“We suffered a blockage in China, Spain, India, Pakistan, Iran, Myanmar and Ethiopia,” said Wong. “Google has been a habitual focus of government efforts to limit freedom of expression because our technologies and services allow people connected to the internet speak to a worldwide audience.”

You Tube is blocked in 12 countries, the most popular video service, Internet, owned by Google. In the Spanish case censorship, according to vice president of Google, occurs in the service of Blogspot blogs. Already Saudi Arabia, Iran and UAE were cited as countries that criticized the social network Orkut.

On day 2, the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the Senate, Google had mentioned Spain as a country that practices censorship.

The newspaper El Pais saidthey contacted with Google, the Spanish office issued a statement saying that although it actually occurred censorship to blogs, this is an isolated incident. “We have no problems with Spain with regard to freedom of expression,” the statement said.

“That did not stop Google from against Spain, without presenting any evidence, as a country where censorship is practiced the web”, criticized the newspaper on Thursday. “Several countries, media and news services have echoed this complaint, naming Spain in their texts.