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Japan was the top requestor to Twitter Inc to have online posts removed in the first half of 2021, making up 43 percent 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 U.S. 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 percent 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 increased by 11 percent in the first six months from the second half of 2020, it said.

The country, the second-largest market for Twitter after the United States, was also the world's top requestor in both the first and second halves of 2020.

Russia, which came second after Japan, comprised 25 percent of global legal demands, with 71 percent of them pertaining to its laws prohibiting the promotion of suicide.

Russia was followed by Turkey, which accounted for 13 percent of the total.

Legal demands are made when tweets violate local laws, among other cases. Twitter reviews the demands before deciding whether to comply.

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/japan-was-top-tweet-removal-requestor-in-1st-half-of-2021-twitter

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When you're nearly twice as bad as Russia

you're in trouble

Japan doesn't have fair use laws iirc

So they rip all that copy-written shit down.

tweets about what?

UnfairRepresent posted...

Russia was followed by Turkey, which accounted for 13 percent of the total.

100% of them relating to failure to lick the shit out of Erdogan's ass, I'm betting.

R1masher posted...

tweets about what?

smoking weed mostly

Is this just for tweets from Japanese citizens or are they trying to censor the world?

Zikten posted...

Is this just for tweets from Japanese citizens or are they trying to censor the world?

Its gonna be mostly Japan

Lawyers In Osaka don't give 2 shits about Scotland

SuperShake666 posted...

Japan doesn't have fair use laws iirc

So they rip all that copy-written shit down.

Ironically they were years ahead of the curb in recognition of video games as copyright protected

In the US blockbuster for years could just buy all the new copies of a game on release day and rent them.

The booklets were copyright protected but not the games. Which is one of the reasons why games used to be so cryptic

SuperShake666 posted...

Japan doesn't have fair use laws iirc

This is what I don't understand. Isn't there a pretty large and thriving market for doujins? How does that happen when the IP laws are so strict? >_>

Kim_Seong-a posted...

This is what I don't understand. Isn't there a pretty large and thriving market for doujins? How does that happen when the IP laws are so strict? >_>

That's easy. Lot's of manga and anime creators start their work writing doujin, so they overlook it. It's illegal as hell.

Oh, lmao. Thanks.

Few nations actually have freedom of speech. United States may have invented the concept.