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The data, which was released Monday, shows that American authorities requested over 3,800 items via court order. That's more than twice as many as the next country, Germany. Google says it complied with 40 percent of the American requests. In addition, over 2,300 items were requested from law enforcement or other means that did not involve a court order.It's funny some of the stuff governments censor. I'd say just go google it to get some good examples, but in this case, I guess, that won't work.
Note that there are some countries, such as Iran and China, which do their own censorship, so Google has no requests from them.
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Gonna go with North Korea. They don't provide an internet to censor.
I wish this article provided some context about the nature of the removal requests. According to Google, it looks like a lot of them are related to accusations of defamation and harassment.
I also question the true significance of these numbers. Requests to remove content is not the same thing as shutting down Google for failing to remove or throwing people in jail.
Yes, the post was mostly for humorous purposes only. It would be nice if we could see the nature of the removal requests. And the U.S. has twice as many requests for four times the population as Germany. That is not mentioned.
If there is a semi-serious side here, it's the notion, which I remember big Pete explaining, that citizens in a country have a skewed sense of their own nation's activities.
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