Big internet companies may have simply designed a similar system for requests for content.
Google's bi-annual report usually contains a separate section on government requests for content to be removed from search results.
Radio 1 typically has 1m views a day on its YouTube channel and another 1m requests for content on its iPlayer service.
Requests for content removal from United States governments and courts doubled over the course of last year to 279 requests to remove 6,949 items, according to Google.
However, in the coming weeks, a form will be avaible to victims that they can fill out to submit requests for content to be taken down.
Between July 2012 and June 2014, the period the first report covers, Wikimedia received 304 requests for content to be taken down or altered, but did not grant a single one.
And while the organization wants to lower the cost of data, Goel points out that part of the reason that it is expensive in some areas is because of physical infrastructure: in Africa, "the continent sorely lack[s] local interconnection points, forcing most requests for content like YouTube videos to be routed through Europe at high cost".
Michuki Mwangi, regional development manager for Africa at the Internet Society, a nonprofit group that has long worked to expand global Internet access, said the continent sorely lacked local interconnection points, forcing most requests for content like YouTube videos to be routed through Europe at high cost.
These processing services include creation, modification, conversion, or filtering of either content or requests for content.
