Governments demand more and more data from Reddit

In 2016, the total number of requests from the government was 170. In 2014, there were only 55. It is 13 times more than in four years.

Steve Huffman, CEO, asked Reddit users what explains this substantial increase year-over-year: "Two reasons: 1. We have more users and content 2. We get a lot more attention than last year. "

In the meantime, the site received 9,534 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices in 2018 – essentially claims for copyright infringement – and removed 24,234 pieces of content. This was more than triple the 3,130 DMCA ratings received in 2017.

A request for deletion of content from a US government entity had nothing to do with copyright. "The request was to remove an image and a large number of comments made under it regarding a possible violation of a federal law," the report says. "To the extent that the government entity has not provided sufficient context on the image violation of the law, it has not provided Reddit with a valid legal process that allows it to To be deleted, and the request to delete the entire message as well as the comment thread seemed too broad, Reddit not comply with the request. "

On Reddit, a user asked Huffman what he was doing. "We gave as much information as possible in the report (but we rejected the request)," replied Huffman.