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Indian legal demands for online content removal are the fourth highest in the world, according to a report.

India on the top

For the study, the researchers collated all data to find out which governments censor online content the most and which channels are targeted by each government.
India is followed by Russia, Turkey, France, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Pakistan, the US and the UK in the top 10.
India and Russia are well ahead, accounting for 19.86 and 19.75 percent of the overall number of removal requests (390,764), respectively, Bischoff said.
While India sent 77,620 content removal requests, Russia sent 77,162 requests during the study period.
However, these two countries do not always dominate the top spots across all channels.

Why censorship in India?

The findings come at a time when India is trying to find ways to fight misinformation spread on social media.
According to Twitter records, many content removal demands from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology simply cited a violation of Section 69(A) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

On the hit list: Social media contents:

While Facebook received most of the content take down requests from India, Google got it from Russia, Microsoft from China, Twitter from Turkey and Wikimedia from the US.

Source: THE HINDU

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