No it is not. There is a difference between random person asking you something and US president asking you something, even if you won't be immediately jailed if you refuse. US president has an elevated stature given to him by the fact he is elected by American people as their ultimate representative, and he (and his administration) also has vast powers to benefit and hurt individuals and companies beyond direct imprisonment or other direct violent actions. Pretending not to know this does not benefit your argument but rather betrays ignorance, real or feigned.
Be less sympathetic to their lobbying efforts, for example.
Google spends almost 10M per year on lobbying:
http://allthingsd.com/20120123/googles-2011-lobbying-expense...
obviously there are many areas where good relationships with the govt are important. If they piss off wrong people, then part of these 10M will be wasted, since they won't listen to what Google has to say.
So the problem is some nebulous undefined possible fear of reprisal (note that I specifically excluded that above..), not the fact that a request was made in the first place.
Sorry but you don't get to extrapolate that far.
Facts:
WH asked Google to see if a video violated their ToS.
No, the problem is that the request was made by the government. If you choose to deliberately ignore vast powers that federal government has, and by which company of Google's size can be directly influenced, you are free to do so, but as I said, it just betrays ignorance, feigned or genuine. That does not change the fact that these powers exist, and the fact that these powers give every request coming from the government special weight compared to a request by ordinary citizen.
>That does not change the fact that these powers exist
And it doesn't change the fact that there is no evidence that is about to happen. Having the power to do something and doing it are two different things.
Which, unless there's some force of law or promise of reprisal behind it, is still "just a request".