Users experiences with their content removed by online hosting services

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Illegal content online
June2018
Report
Flash Eurobarometer469
III.!USERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH THEIR CONTENT REMOVED BY ONLINE HOSTING
SERVICES
Respondents who used at least one of the online hosting serviceswere asked if they had uploaded
content which, in their view, was erroneously removed or blocked by the hosting service 15.
Only a very small minority(5%) of the respondents who use online hosting services say
thatthey had uploaded content which was wrongly blockedor removed by an Internet
hosting service
One in twenty (5%) respondents who have undertaken at least oneof the types ofonline activities
considered, say they had contentwrongly blocked or removed by an Internethosting service: 3%
mentionthis has happened once, while 2% say it has happened several times.
Base: Respondents who do at least one activity online (N=30,266)
Poland (10%) is the only country where at least one in ten respondents say they have tried to
upload or post legal content online that was, in their view,wrongly blocked or removed
by an Internethosting service, followed by 8% in Denmark and 7% in Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
At the other end of the scale just 3% of respondents in Romania and Germany say this has
happened to them.
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15Q7. Have you t ried to upload or post co ntent online which was legal but w as wr ongly blocked or remove d by the Internethosting
service? No , never; Yes, on ce; Yes, several t imes.

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