India one of the major requestors in content regulation

A report released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) revealed that even though India’s share in Twitter’s user base is increasing, it is also one of the major requesters in content regulation on the site.

During the first six months of 2021, 95% of the total legal demands directed at Twitter came from five countries, namely, Japan, Russia, Turkey, India and South Korea. India accounted for 11% of global legal demands for content takedown during Jan-June 2021, which is down from 18% in the previous period.

India dropped from being in second place to the fourth place in submitting requests for content regulation. It even draws from Google’s data on content removal and noted that India was “never out of line” with the global trends when it came to giving orders for content removal.

Among other countries, Japan accounts for 18% of Twitter’s global user base and shares 32% of global legal demands, while South Korea has issued 5% of removal requests with just a 2% user base. India’s 17,338 Legal demands between 2012 and 2021 account for 7% of the global legal demands amidst 225,076 demands that the site received worldwide, the internal report prepared by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology stated.