| Country | Court orders | Requests from government agencies or law enforcement | Number of sites specified | Percentage of requests where content was removed due to a violation of our policies | Percentage of requests where content was removed solely in response to the demand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Australia | 0 | 2 | 2 | 50% | 0% |
| Brazil | 0 | 73 | 45 | 1% | 0% |
| Canada | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Finland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| France | 0 | 4 | 8 | 75% | 0% |
| Germany | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0% | 0% |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Malaysia | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0% | 0% |
| Mexico | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 3 | 3 | 33% | 0% |
| Russia | 0 | 81 | 56 | 20% | 37% |
| Turkey | 13 | 0 | 14 | 8% | 54% |
| Total | 13 | 172 | 137 | 12% | 20% |
For demands that come from Russia and Turkey, we will generally geoblock the specific content or site(s) at issue, so that WordPress.com remains otherwise accessible in the country. However, in cases of particularly egregious censorship, we have pushed back and do push back where possible. You can read a bit more about our approach to those kinds of takedown demands here.
| Country | Total | PII | Fraud | Terrorist activity | Hateful conduct | Self-harm | Sites specified | Removed due to demand | Removed for violation of policy | Court orders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% | 100% | 0 |
| France | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0% | 75% | 0 |
| Germany | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0% | 33% | 0 |
| Total | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 0% | 40% | 0 |
Notes
- With regards to Takedown Demands Received from EU Member States, the data provided is according to the requirements of the DSA, Article 15, “Transparency reporting obligations for providers of intermediary services.”
- The information provided is for the total number of takedown requests per country, broken down by type of reported content at issue.
- The table also provides the percentage of the total amount of orders where we complied and the percentage of orders resulted in action taken due to a violation of our guidelines.
- We are also reporting the median time (in hours) that it took to confirm receipt and take action on reported content.
Recent Examples
Here are some recent examples of takedown demands we received that did not result in the removal of content:
Malaysia
- The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (“MCMC”) demanded that we remove allegedly defamatory and harassing content targeting the President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia.
- We received a separate takedown demand from the MCMC in relation to content critical of the Malaysian Government’s principal tax collection agency.
Russia
- We continue to receive numerous takedown demands from the Russian Government concerning critical commentary on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including their treatment of soldiers, and political criticism of the government and its leadership more generally.
Transparency Report 