Users experiences with their content removed by online hosting services

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Illegal content online

June 2018

Report

Flash Eurobarometer 469

III.!USERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH THEIR CONTENT REMOVED BY ONLINE HOSTING

SERVICES

Respondents who used at least one of the online hosting services were asked if they ha d 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

that they had uploaded content which was wrongly blocked or removed by an In ternet

hosting service

One in t wenty (5%) resp ondents who have undertaken at least one of the types of online activities

considered, say th ey had content wrongly blocked or removed by an Internet hosting service: 3%

mention this 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 Internet hosting 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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15 Q7. 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 Internet hosting

service? No , never; Yes, on ce; Yes, several t imes.