This is the first time that Google publishes the number, per country, of government requests for data or content removal directed to Google and YouTube.
As stated in the results, the numbers maybe skewed as one request may concern dozens of urls, but the results are still interesting and slightly puzzling.
If it is no surprise that China bears a question mark, the names of the Top 4 countries who have requested way more data or content removal than the rest of the pack is less anticipated:
1- Brazil (291)
2- Germany (188)
3- India (142)
4- United States (123)
At the bottom of the list, one can find France, along with Sweden, Norway or the Netherlands with less than 10 requests. Accounting for the population size difference, the US government sends Google over 4 times more requests than France does.
An inquiring mind can't help wondering what this means in regard to the USA vs. France (and the rest of the world) approach to internet content and things like freedom of speech, laissez-faire etc. Or alternatively, it could show how much high level raw data, without context or details, can be misleading.
Ndlr: Hadopi is still so wrong for so many reasons.
Source: Government requests directed to Google and YouTube
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