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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 14:47 UTC

Tag: Knight Center

  • Monday, April 29th 2013 - 06:30 UTC

    Brazil government leader in online censorship requests, says Google Transparency Report

    In two cases, the director of Google Brazil went to jail for refusing to comply with a court order to remove videos a mayoral candidate considered offensive.

    Brazil has a big lead as the country with the most government requests to remove online content by judicial order in the latest Google Transparency Report, released last week. In the period between July and December 2012, the search giant received 1,461 court-ordered requests from governments around the world to remove content, including YouTube videos and search results, with nearly 43% of them coming from Brazilian authorities.