| 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
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 0 | 10 | 9 | 50% | 30% |
| Germany | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0% | 50% |
| India | 0 | 20 | 19 | 0% | 0% |
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0% | 100% |
| Mexico | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Pakistan | 0 | 7 | 254 | 0% | 100% |
| Romania | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0% |
| Russia | 0 | 202 | 81* | 27% | 48% |
| Spain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Turkey | 45 | 0 | 72 | 31% | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| United States | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0% | 0% |
| TOTAL | 46 | 249 | 448 | 25% | 46% |
| *While 81 sites were affected, there was a total of 203 URLs included in their requests. |
For demands that come from Pakistan, Russia, and Turkey, we geoblock the specific content or site(s) at issue, so that WordPress.com remains otherwise accessible in the country. You can read a bit more about our approach to those kinds of takedown demands here.
Recent Examples
Here are a few recent examples of takedown demands that we received:
The United Kingdom
A police department filed an emergency takedown request for posting “false accusations” about a group of individuals.
India
- The Cyber Police Station sent a takedown request addressed to the CTO of a separate company.
Pakistan
- The Web Analysis Team of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) requested, in one notice, the removal of more than 100 sites that were deemed “blasphemous.”
Transparency Report 