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Kazakhstan outpaces last year's efforts to block questionable online material

Staff Report

ASTANA -- Kazakhstani authorities have secured the removal of more than 200,000 pieces of content, including terrorist and extremist content, that they found on social networks and video sharing sites this year, a government official said at a Friday (June 2) roundtable in Astana, according to Vlast.kz.

The roundtable's topic was Kazakhstan's fight against questionable internet content.

The government is far ahead of its pace last year, when social networks, at Astana's request, took down about 110,000 questionable online materials, said Mikhail Komissarov of the Information and Communications Ministry.

The sites co-operating with the government include YouTube, VKontakte and Facebook, he said.

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