YouTube Has Refused To Let The Lukaszists Remove 50 Videos

Google report data.

Google has released its annual report, revealing how many requests it received for content removal and what decision it made. Belarusian authorities wanted 51 videos removed from YouTube.

The number of requests to remove content from Belarus. Screenshot from Google's report

For 2024, Google received 7 requests to remove content from Belarus - a total of 58 pieces of content. Of those, 56 were YouTube videos, one was a web search, and one more was unspecified.

Two of the requests were from an unnamed government agency. One was for the removal of 51 videos from YouTube. No reason was given.

The request was denied. This can be seen by sorting the requests by sender for the second half of the year and selecting "government officials".

The site lists selected cases that Google has decided on. Among the cases is one from 2020 - at the time, the Ministry of Information sued to remove videos with "extremist material." Google refused, as it did not find any "extremist materials" in the video.

According to Google's data, after August 2020, not a single request from Belarusian government agencies was approved (there are no detailed statistics for the period up to 2019, so it is difficult to judge).

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