Re:Government Requests to Remove Content
by enteeentee on Saturday January 15, 2022 @10:23PM
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Which country ?
Looking at the UK for myself.
UK National Security Requests spike is huge 6/30/2015 to 6/30/2019 https://www.datawrapper.de/_/ys8L7/
but if you look at products in eg the highest period ending 6/30/2015 https://www.datawrapper.de/_/3J2Qg/
Total of 485 most requests (291) are for google docs. Bad info sec maybe?
Looking at web search alone (national security).It does have a small spike similar sort of period in that 2016-06-30 to 2019-06-30 (in that its not been used at all in any other period! So of the 21 periods, its only been used in 7 of those periods)
Does go up to a whopping big 23 in 2017-12-31.
Google's certainly not the search engine it once was, but for the most part it does at least tell you if it's censored the results. I mostly use Duck Duck Go, but there decidedly notice odd things occasionally -- like one or two results when searching for a part datasheet -- and that's not mentioning the whole Tianamen Square thing that happened recently.