LONDON: Many other countries are joining Pakistan who wish to censor content on the internet like Pakistan did when it banned You tube couple of months ago on the blasphemous content.
According to a recent report issued by Google the requests made by governments to remove content are increasing gradually.
In its traditional six-month report, which covers July to December of 2012, Google reveals that attempts by governments around the world to censor political content on the Internet are growing.
According to the number of such governmental requests has increased by almost 25 pc in just one year.
The report says that”From July to December 2012, we received 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content—an increase from the 1,811 requests to remove 18,070 pieces of content that we received during the first half of 2012,” Google’s Legal Director Susan Infantino wrote in a blog post.
These types of requests have doubled since the second half of 2011, when governments made 1,054 requests to remove 12,071 items.
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