TOKYO: Japan was the top requestor to Twitter to have online posts removed in the first half of 2021, making up 43% of all legal demands received from across the world during the period, the company said in a recent report.
The latest biannual transparency report by the US social media giant showed court orders and other formal demands from governmental entities and lawyers representing individuals to remove content totaled 43,387 between January and June last year, with 18,518 of them coming from Japan.
The report said 93% of the requests from Japan were primarily related to laws concerning narcotics and drug control, obscenity, or financial-linked crimes.
The number of legal demands from Japan…
