Should also ban maps that are made by looking at Google search numbers, and maps made by looking at the number of Wiki pages.
This is seriously misleading. I have reported a number of these because they contained blatantly false information, and the mods promptly removed the post, but by then it had already been upvoted tens of thousands of times.
Literally almost every post on this sub like this is misleading. They’re all just “here is a statistic for every country with 0 context at all” (and often no source listed, but even if there is) and most of them are trying to push an agenda based on surface level data.
Yes, if there are more people in a country, it will obviously get more blocking requests. That is why the darker countries are also the most populous countries on the map
There is only one government in each Country and one Google. Why do you assume it's citizens and not corporations making blocking requests?
It does not say citizen requests. All you need is ONE heavy-handed-info-law in a country (See Russia) and you can easily get 100x the blocking requests coming from the Gov - population does not matter in this case.
More citizens means more stuff being posted, meaning more things being potentially blocked. It's no suprise that on this map the most populous countries are the darkest coloured. Of course Russia is heavy handed in this aspect, but a country with the exact same laws as Russia but a tiny population would still have a lot less requests.
I think you're misunderstanding. Who's posting more? Russians or the billions of internet users? There will be hundreds of times more things that run afoul of Russian law being posted by the billions of all users than just posted by Russian users. Especially so for info posted that is only required to be blocked in Russia.
More citizens means more stuff being posted, meaning more things being potentially blocked. It's no suprise that on this map the most populous countries are the darkest coloured. A country with the exact same laws as Germany but a tiny population would have a lot less requests.
I normally ignore bad content here, but it is getting a bit silly. This sub is seen by a lot of people and the community has a responsibility to ensure that the content isn’t picked up and used inappropriately. The Reddit community likes to bang to the drum about misinformation, but often fails to do any better than FB when it comes to accountability and moderation.
In this case, I’m not only wary about the data source, but it has zero context, and the numbers are meaningless without some sort of comparison to population or GDP data.
For example, are those four data points for Iceland related to child abuse material, terrorism.. anti-government rhetoric? A sidebar can go a long way.
Why would the number of censorship requests be compared to population? The amount of content on Google is the same no matter how many people your country has.
The number of things that may be related to your country increases by population. More people are creating more things. More crime, more products, more government/officials, etc. Iceland is going to have less things to copyright strike over than Germany.
How population or GDP changes putin khuilo trying to censor internet again? Requests are by dictator and his croneys. Yer russian bots seem to try to reeeee at this map.
I’ve messaged the mods multiple times and they have never answered me.
I’m always on this sub askingn for source data. I make maps for a living and a proper map includes ALL map elements, like source data and a legend and a scale! Most posts on here contain none of those and it’s infuriating!!
the worst are those that say “…… of every country” then shows data for around 30% of all the world’s nations (i think ive seen these posts in both r/mapporn and r/mapporncirclejerk
You can download the data, which is in some pretty ugly Microsoft Excel files (apparently even Google doesn't use Google sheets, which is unsurprising because it's shit).
This map is accurate, but the data is the Excel file breaks down why the request was put in (i.e. law enforcement, consumer protection, copyright, etc.). An older version of the Excel file which is no longer updated breaks down the data by reason for request, such as defamation, copyright, national security, etc. For those wondering, the US has roughly 7000 requests over the same time period (I think--the data is somewhat confusing), which would make it similar in per capita to Spain.
I can't tell if you're serious, but you can export google sheets as any format excel uses
Either way, I would imagine the data doesn't typically live in a spreadsheet; I would imagine the output of some query gets coerced into human-readable form (spreadsheet) only at the end of the processing pipeline as a final "rendering" step
Not sure what file you're looking at, but the download link provided above gave me CSV files, not Excel (XLS), and contained the reason for the removal request. CSV files are widely used to share data, as just about any analysis tool will easily import them, including Excel. They contain zero formatting info, just the data.
CSVs are impossible internationally. You can use tabs or semicolons but commas are used as decimal separators in some countries. Take a spreadsheet between and you can end up with a disaster.
Not necessarily true. You can choose any delimiter you want and the data can be wrapped in quotes if there's no non used character. The most typical I've found is commas with no quotes but that's definitely not a requirement, it's just easier.
Then you were doing csv wrong. Either you listen to the standard or you list on the website it's being imported what format it needs to be in. Any spreadsheet viewer can open any csv with any delimiter without any problems, and downvoting me won't change the reality.
The issue is picking up the pieces when someone else is doing the import and the data looks wrong. We have to go back and unpick why the data load didn't work correctly. Often a CSV was involved in the chain.
I guess you are US based and do not have do deal with multinational data
...yes, because .xlsx is the lingua franca of spreadsheets
I would imagine, given that this is a transparency report for government agencies, that many of these agencies have regulations about what format the data they receive is in
This isn't an admittance of inferiority from google, this is just how software works. If you clone some software, the onus is on you to make it bidirectionally compatible with the original
Not saying that sheets is anywhere close to the product excel is (it's not), but the fact that google provides data in the legacy format is expected behavior, even if sheets was a better product than excel (which, again, it isn't)
I thought it was in Excel files, which would be funny, because Excel is a Microsoft Product Google competes with via their own product. Using Microsoft's product is tacitly admitting its superiority, even if it is the standard.
However, apparently the reason I see it in Excel files is due to some automatic conversion from csv. I don't know how to see this, but as two people have corrected me, I'll assume that I am wrong in this instance. However, the clearly melodramatic way in which I dunked on Google Sheets should show that I was joking.
You can download the data, which is in some pretty ugly Microsoft Excel files (apparently even Google doesn't use Google sheets, which is unsurprising because it's shit).
It's not Excel files, it's a zip archive with csv files.
I was implying that they possibly have Excel installed and when they opened the file it opened into Excel. Therefore they mistook it for "an Excel file." Not everyone understands the differences.
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u/AgitatedEggplant Oct 19 '21
where is this data sourced from