The Indian government made about 2.2 thousand content removal requests from Google during the second half of the year 2023, an increase compared to the same period in the previous year. The most commonly cited reasons for this were impersonation followed by defamation. In the past couple of years, the number of content removal requests addressed by India to Google have spiked.
Number of government and court requests for content removal from Google India from 1st half of 2010 to 1st half of 2023
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