Chart of the Day (2): Who censors the web more?

Economist piece on the "balkanizing web."

Admit it, you would have expected China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc. to be on top of this list (governments' content-removal requests to Google).

Instead we get Brazil (democracy), Germany (democracy), India (democracy), the US (democracy), South Korea (democracy), and so on.

Of course, this is a gross measure, so perhaps all this says is that these states are more connected and allow the freest content and so it makes eminent sense that the most abuses are encountered--and countered--on their sites.

But still, a bit counter-intutive--ja?

Comments

[Larry Y]

How much of it is copy right violation though (DMCA take downs for those from the USA)?