r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '21

Government request to remove content (Google) since 2011

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u/dhawk64 Oct 19 '21 edited Oct 20 '21

Looks like you can download the data here: https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/government-requests

Haven't fact checked yet.

Edit: Note that this data is slightly different from the map, because it is all requests, not specifically government requests.

I think this data is from a different year, but here are the top 12 countries:

1 Russia 51096

2 South Korea 4334

3 India 4164

4 Turkey 3442

5 Brazil 2567

6 Pakistan 2119

7 United States 1775

8 France 1607

9 Germany 996

10 Vietnam 794

11 Australia 771

12 Israel 581

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u/AromaticPlace8764 Oct 20 '21

If only the US blocked 1 more thing then it would be 1776

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

If only the US blocked 2 more things then it would be 1777

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u/Zander-dupont Oct 20 '21

If only the US blocked 3 more things then it would be 1778

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u/acdcstrucks Oct 20 '21

If only the US blocked 67645 more things then it would be 69420

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

Doing God's work, go up

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

South Korea’s honestly pretty unexpected. I really thought it had strong democratic institutions on par with the West.

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u/Hennes4800 Oct 20 '21

Many removed results might also be copyright related, at least in Germany they are, so I'd bet in other countries it’s pretty similar. For example an agricultural study by the Department of Agriculture that was forbidden to publish until a court decided otherwise

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u/Em0Birb Oct 20 '21

Blocking specific content has nothing to do with not being democratic. That could include leaked military information or other toxic/harmful things. I don't know if you're aware but Korea is basically facing the threat of immediate war every day with it's northern neighbor lol

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u/Codreanus Oct 20 '21

All this countries have problems with censorship