| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| Bermuda | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| France | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 0% |
| Germany | 1 | 4 | 3 | 50% | 0% |
| India | 0 | 10 | 24 | 10% | 0% |
| Italy | 0 | 4 | 22 | 100% | 0% |
| Malaysia | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0% | 0% |
| Pakistan | 0 | 8 | 105 | 13% | 63% |
| Republic of Ireland | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0% | 0% |
| Russia | 0 | 162 | 74 | 17% | 48% |
| Spain | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0% | 0% |
| Sweden | 0 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 0% |
| Turkey | 27 | 27 | 38 | 44% | 52% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 2 | 3 | 50% | 0% |
| United States | 0 | 2 | 2 | 50% | 0% |
| Total | 29 | 202 | 285 | 23% | 42% |
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:
Malaysia
A government office in Malaysia demanded we takedown a site for defaming an ATM machine service provider after a negative review was published.
Sweden
- A police station in Sweden helped us to discover an illegal narcotics-sale site, which was immediately suspended.
Pakistan
- The Web Analysis Team of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) requested, in one notice, the removal of more than 65 sites that were deemed “blasphemous.”
Transparency Report 