Google is struggling with governments all over the world to remove Internet censorship and the fight is going worse, said Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of the company. Schmidt noted he fears his own colleagues faced mounting danger of occasional arrest and torture.

As rebels and revolutionaries in Arabian countries such as Egypt and Tunisia used the Internet to communicate with each other and support their move, governments in many other sates focused more closely on restricting access to the worldwide web like they did with the television.

Last year Google pulled its operations out of China because of censorship and a computer hacking orchestrated to obtain private information of Google account owners.

The chairman of the world's largest web search engine warned that in certain countries governments would try to make sure the Internet became as regulated as television.

"I think this problem is going to get worse," Schmidt told a Google-organised Dublin summit on militant violence.

"The reason is that as the technology becomes more pervasive and as the citizenry becomes completely wired and the content gets localized to the language of the country, it becomes an issue like television."

"If you look at television in most of these countries, television is highly regulated because the leaders, partial dictators, half dictators or whatever you want to call them understand the power of television imagery to keep their citizenry in some bucket."

Schmidt also said employees of the company were in danger of arrest and possible torture in certain parts of the world that deem material that appears on its search engine to be illegal.

"There are countries where it is illegal to do things that Google encourages. In those countries, there is a real possibility of (employees) being put in prison for reasons which are not their fault."