Regional content-moderation transparency laws
Two content-moderation laws require platforms to publish periodic transparency reports; Google files both for YouTube. Texas HB 20 (Business & Commerce Code §120.053) mandates half-yearly reporting on monetization, Community-Guidelines enforcement (videos removed / appealed / reinstated), flags by flagger type, and removals by detection source, reason and country of upload. Austria's KoPl-G (Kommunikationsplattformen-Gesetz §4) mandates biannual reporting on complaints about allegedly-illegal textual content (comments) — figures are sparse, as YouTube notes the webform is “de facto not used.” Each row is one measured value by jurisdiction × period × section × category × metric. Metric scope is each report's own — pin a jurisdiction, section and metric before aggregating, and note the reason/detection breakdowns each partition the videos_removed total.
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YouTube videos removed, by reason (Texas HB 20)
Videos removed for Community-Guidelines violations, by policy category, in the latest full Texas §120.053 report. The reason breakdown partitions the period's total videos-removed figure.
YouTube videos removed, by country of upload (Texas HB 20)
Videos removed by the uploader's country/region (based on IP at upload), in the latest full Texas report. Content removed for violating YouTube's guidelines is removed globally.
Community-Guidelines enforcement, by period (Texas HB 20)
The headline global Community-Guidelines figures YouTube files under Texas §120.053 each half-year: videos removed, appeals received, and reinstatements. From 2025-H2 these point to the global enforcement report instead.
KoPl-G complaints, by period (Austria)
Complaints about allegedly-illegal comments reported and removed under Austria's KoPl-G. The counts are single-digit — YouTube's report notes the KoPl-G reporting webform is de facto unused.
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