Google released its seventh report on the transparency of content removal requests we made public and Portugal in the list with five requests for the removal of nine content.
Four applications relating to six contents relate to actions for defamation – three in Blogger platform and the results of the search engine – while the fifth request was for three content published on the service blogs Mountain View giant but whose reasons were not specified. All requests were made by courts.
In general, worldwide, the number of content removal requests increased from 1,811 in the first half to 2,285 complaints in six months of 2012. The Google data show that during the last year the number of applications has increased significantly in relation to the six previously analyzed. “It is becoming clear that government attempts to censor content in Google increased”, writes the technology in a publication in the official blog. 
For the remaining countries, Brazil was the one who had a greater increase in requests for blocking of content, an average of 3.5 applications per day and a total of 697 complaints. The justify the increase of almost 500 applications for first half results were municipal elections that led to a wave of slander on blogs.
Russia also increased exponentially the number of complaints – seven in the first six months 2012 to 114 between July and December – because of a new Russian law to eliminate sites and content that is considered offensive to children.Google reveals that during the second half of last year received 20 requests for removal to the film Innocence of Muslims and that some of the requests submitted resulted in blocking the video in certain countries.
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