India tops Facebook’s content restriction request list
Week : [8-15 November]
In its Government Requests Report, Facebook said the number of pieces of content
restricted by India stood at 15,155 (the highest for any country) in January-June 2015.
The number is significantly higher compared to 5,832 in July-December 2014 and 4,960 requests in January-June 2014.
Content reported primarily by :
1. law enforcement agencies
2. the India Computer Emergency Response Team within the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Reason for restriction :
information was anti-religious and hate speech that could cause unrest and disharmony within India
There is an increase in content restrictions and government requests for data globally.
The amount of content restricted for violating local law stood at 20,568 worldwide, more than doubling
from the second half of 2014, when the social networking firm took down 9,707 pieces of content.
Turkey had the second highest number of content restricted at 4,496, followed by France (295), Israel (195),
Germany (188) and Austria (170).