A couple of days ago Google posted on the web the censorship demands made by countries to Google and YouTube between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. The website URL is http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/.
It is a pretty interesting tool. If you click the little box with the number of data or removal requests per country then Google will show how it has complied (or not) with the request and what the break down is.
No data on China. Google a little red clickable box indicating that ‘Chinese officials consider censorship demands as state secrets, so we cannot disclose that information at this time.’
Interestingly, Brazil is number one on both counts (data and removal requests.) The reason for that seems to be a a social networking site called Orkut that is owned and operated by Google. In Brazil Google complied in 291/3663 request and 218/291 were related to Orkut (presumably taking down offensive material.)
Interesting tool!
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