Google's top legal man wants to see pressure applied to governments - such as China's and Turkey's - that have strict internet censorship rules in place.
According to Reuters, David Drummond argued at a public meeting with US Trade Rep Ron Kirk and other Mountain View wonks at the Googleplex on Wednesday that such behaviour by individual countries was bad for US trade.
"Internet censorship is really a trade barrier, and is operating that way for US companies that are trying to do business abroad," he grumbled.
"If this were happening with physical trade and manufacturing goods, we'd all be saying this violates trade agreements pretty fundamentally."
His remarks probably won't be welcomed by Beijing officials, who in July renewed the ad broker's licence in China, after getting Google to agree to halt the automatic rerouting of its Google.cn search engine users to Hong Kong.
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