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Home > Network/Internet > 7 countries ask Google to ban most content

7 countries ask Google to ban most content

Every year, Google receives thousands of requests from the governments around the globe for the removal of some sensitive content hosted on Google's platforms, such as Blog Post, YouTube, etc.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
November 3, 2019
2 min read

According to the UK internet-research site, Comparitech’s report 115,301 requests have been made to remove content between July 2009 and Jully 2018. The most common reasons for those requests are national security, defamation, privacy and security, and copyright.

Here are the 7 countries with most requests and reasons:

Table of Contents

  • Russia – 61,471 – National Security
  • Turkey – 10,379 – Defamation
  • USA – 7,961 – Defamation
  • Brazil – 6,455 – Defamation
  • India – 5,308 – Defamation
  • Britain – 3,984 – National Security
  • Germany – 3,197 – Defamation

Russia – 61,471 – National Security

Russia is definitely one of the countries that take internet security seriously. Russia is planning to test the unplugging from the global internet as a part of its new “sovereign internet” law. Some experts are claiming that President Putin is trying to establish a closed internet similar to China’s.

Turkey – 10,379 – Defamation

Blocking online content and websites is not something new for Turkey. Turkey has banned YouTube, Twitter in the past and Wikipedia is still banned as a result of a Turkish court order.

USA – 7,961 – Defamation

The USA is also one of the most active countries when it comes to taking action against online content. The most common reason for requesting the removal of content is defamation against the USA.

Brazil – 6,455 – Defamation

Similar to most of the countries on the list, Brazil is also requesting Google to remove content, especially politically-related videos frequently. Back in 2012, the election court ordered to arrest of the most senior executive in the country.

India – 5,308 – Defamation

India has adopted a law in 2011 that requires internet companies to remove any content that is deemed “defamatory,” “hateful”, “harmful to minors”, or “infringes copyright” within 36 hours of being notified by the authorities. As a result, Google executives are summoned by the Indian court many times about the subject.

Britain – 3,984 – National Security

Most of the content that is removed as a result of Britain’s request was a part of surveillance and police measures system to combat terrorism. The UK is also taking action against the websites which promote hate speech.

Germany – 3,197 – Defamation

Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz law or NetzDG was passed in 2017 to fight against and to censor hate speech. Germany asked Google to remove content that denies the holocaust, which is a felony under German law.

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Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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