The Indian government made about 1.6 thousand content removal requests from Google during the second half of the year 2023, a decrease compared to the same period in the previous year. The most commonly cited reasons for this were defamation and fraud. The number of content removal requests addressed by India to Google spiked over the past couple of years.
Number of government and court requests for content removal from Google India from 1st half of 2010 to 2nd half of 2023
Characteristic
Government content removal requests
H2 2023
1,677
H1 2023
2,191
H2 2022
2,290
H1 2022
2,115
H2 2021
2,311
H1 2021
1,332
H2 2020
990
H1 2020
890
H2 2019
760
H1 2019
906
H2 2018
1,284
H1 2018
1,190
H2 2017
1,074
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