Compiled 15 August 2026 · demand figures July–December 2024

What is allowed.
What is not. By country.

Governments can force X to hide posts, rank them down, or block the whole service. X now publishes the ranking filters in the open-source algorithm. This atlas puts those filters next to national blocks and the latest transparency-report demand — so you can see your country beside everyone else’s.

1 open-source government filter6 national blocks97,006 removal requests · July–December 2024

Government removal demand

Named rows from the July–December 2024 global report. EU is one bucket. Most other countries sit in “All others.”

How this is counted
Japan69,186
Turkey11,107
All others11,047
European Union3,831
South Korea1,835

Suggested from your locale

Nationally blocked6Open-source government filter1Restricted or withheld9High government demand4No published restriction40

60 countries · sorted by severity

China

CN

Blocked

Nationally blocked. There is nothing to recommend or withhold because the site does not load.

Iran

IR

Blocked

Blocked at the network layer since 2009.

Myanmar

MM

Blocked

Blocked since the 2021 coup.

North Korea

KP

Blocked

Blocked. Not an X-side filter — a national information ban.

Russia

RU

Blocked

Blocked on domestic networks. Older transparency rows still show heavy legal-demand history.

Turkmenistan

TM

Blocked

Blocked as part of a near-total social-media ban.

Brazil

BR · 1 live

Filter

The only country with a government-required filter published in the open-source For You code. Access is open; recommendations are not fully open.

France

FR

Restricted

Accessible. Orders exist; the public catalog of withheld posts does not.

Germany

DE · 1 live

Restricted

Open access. Country withholdings exist; they are not listed post-by-post in public.

Nigeria

NG

Restricted

Available. The 2021 national block is historical, not current.

Pakistan

PK

Restricted

Access is back, but the recent multi-month block is the live context.

Saudi Arabia

SA

Restricted

Available, with local-law withholdings that are not individually listed in public.

Spain

ES

Restricted

Open access, EU-law withholdings possible, no algorithm filter.

United Arab Emirates

AE

Restricted

Accessible, with jurisdiction-scoped withholdings.

United Kingdom

GB · 4 live · 26 named

Restricted

Open access. 19 named illegal duties + 7 child-only duties, from X’s own UK page. Ofcom opened a formal Grok investigation on 12 January 2026. Removal volume is still not broken out.

Venezuela

VE

Restricted

Access restored in 2026 after a 17-month national block.

Canada

CA · 3 live

Open

Open access. No ranking filter. A B.C. Supreme Court petition over a global takedown order is the live speech-adjacent file; C-63 is not law.

India

IN · 1 live

High demand

Available nationwide, with a dense blocking-order regime and monthly statutory reports.

Japan

JP · 1 live · 6 named

High demand

Open access. Half of all global legal demands. 96% are crime ads — finance, drugs, prostitution — not a political ranking filter. Honor takedowns run on a separate 7-day private-party track.

Turkey

TR · 1 live

High demand

Accessible, but one of the most aggressive legal-demand regimes on the platform.

South Korea

KR

High demand

Open access with a high action rate on a smaller request volume than Japan or Turkey.

Argentina

AR

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Australia

AU

Open

Available. Regulator can demand takedowns; there is no published ranking filter.

Austria

AT

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Belgium

BE

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Chile

CL

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Colombia

CO

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Czechia

CZ

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Denmark

DK

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Egypt

EG

Open

Available. Not in the current blocked set. No published ranking filter.

Finland

FI

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Ghana

GH

Open

Available. First appeared as a legal-demand country in an earlier transparency cycle.

Greece

GR

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Hong Kong

HK

Open

Accessible, unlike mainland China. Legal-demand risk is the live constraint.

Hungary

HU

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Indonesia

ID

Open

Available, with a ministry-order regime.

Ireland

IE

Open

Available. Regulatory home for X in the EU, not a block.

Israel

IL

Open

Available. Demands exist; they are not an open-source ranking filter.

Italy

IT

Open

Available. EU illegal-content rules apply; no open-source filter.

Kenya

KE

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Malaysia

MY

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Mexico

MX

Open

Available. No open-source government filter. Volume in “All others.”

Netherlands

NL

Open

Open access. No published national algorithm filter.

New Zealand

NZ

Open

Available. No published algorithm filter; not a named top requester.

Norway

NO

Open

Available. Not in the EU row. No published ranking filter.

Peru

PE

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Philippines

PH

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Poland

PL

Open

Open access under the EU DSA umbrella.

Portugal

PT

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Qatar

QA

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Romania

RO

Open

Available. EU DSA applies. No published ranking filter.

Singapore

SG

Open

Available. Targeted statutory orders, not a ranking blocklist.

South Africa

ZA

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Sweden

SE

Open

Available. No open-source filter. Volume is inside the EU aggregate.

Switzerland

CH

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

Taiwan

TW

Open

Available. Historic isolated withholdings; no ranking filter.

Thailand

TH

Open

Available. Local-law withholdings, especially lèse-majesté, are the constraint.

Ukraine

UA

Open

Available. No published ranking filter.

United States

US

Open

Highest-profile information-request jurisdiction. Content removals are not the main lever.

Vietnam

VN

Open

Available, with a state takedown regime.