Thailand has made 1,147 requests for Google to take down content since 2011 with 95.2% related to government criticism — the highest rate in the world.
The information was shown in the latest study by Surfshark, a virtual private network (VPN) firm, which analysed Google’s Transparency Report.
With a total of 1,147 requests for content removal from Facebook, the country was ranked 16th in the world in terms of the number of requests.
“A massive 95.2% of these requests cite ‘Government Criticism’ as the reason — as an overall percentage, that’s more than any other country,” Surfshark said in a statement.
For 2020 alone, Thailand saw 184 requests for content removal.
According to Surfshark, Google receives thousands of requests every year from all levels of governments to remove online content, ranging from infringement of intellectual property rights to…
