Country | Court Orders | Requests from government agencies or law enforcement | Percentage of requests where content was removed | Number of sites specified |
---|---|---|---|---|
Australia | 0 | 2 | 0% | 2 |
Azerbaijan | 0 | 2 | 100%* | 2 |
Brazil | 0 | 3 | 0% | 3 |
Colombia | 0 | 3 | 0% | 7 |
France | 0 | 14 | 36% | 14 |
Georgia | 0 | 1 | 100% | 1 |
Germany | 0 | 7 | 0% | 7 |
India | 1 | 14 | 0% | 17 |
Israel | 0 | 12 | 0% | 21 |
Kazakhstan | 0 | 4 | 25% | 8 |
Malta | 0 | 1 | 0% | 1 |
Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0% | 1 |
Russia | 0 | 168 | 87% | 168 |
Taiwan | 0 | 2 | 0% | 2 |
Turkey | 92 | 0 | 68%* | 139 |
United States | 0 | 1 | 0% | 1 |
TOTAL | 93 | 235 | 66% | 394 |
Recent Examples
Here are a few recent examples of takedown demands that we received:
Colombia
- The national police asked us to suspend six sites for making “insulting and dishonorable comments against political figures in Colombia and imputing unfounded charges to people who generate business at the national level.”
India
- Law enforcement demanded that we delete a site for posting allegedly false allegations about someone.
- Law enforcement demanded the removal of a photo that depicted Lord Shiva in Mecca, which “hurt the beliefs and feelings of the community.”
Russia
- We received 168 orders from the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) for content that was deemed to be in violation of Russian Federal Law 139.
Taiwan
- Law enforcement requested that we remove a site for containing allegedly defamatory material.
Turkey
- We received one court order for which the complainant was President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and five court orders for which the complainant was Necmeddin Bilal Erdogan, President Erdogan’s son.