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The breakdown by the type of removal requests is somewhat more telling than the raw numbers.

Brasil: 75% orkut

Germany: 52% web search, 38% YouTube

India: 84% orkut

US: 57% YouTube, 20% web search

That's not really telling considering that usage of orkut in Brazil and India is orders of magnitude higher than in the US or Germany.

I think the insinuation is that the takedown requests, though numerous, are usually for little stuff like high school bullying and DMCA enforcement rather than for political reasons or other much sketchier things.

Yes, it's probably not political stuff. Bullying, slander, fake accounts are rampant in Orkut.

Also, it used to have many security holes (maybe still has, I don't use it anymore) and Brazil has no shortage of script kiddies. So there many cases of hijacked accounts and communities.

s/there many/there have been many

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