According to India's Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, hate speech is the big issue due to which the government is moving to censor the Internet. The following graph, made from data made public by Google, shows removal requests made by the Indian government to Google, broken down on the basis of reason for removal. Google began classifying these requests on the basis of reason for removal only from the period July - December 2010, so there are only two data points for each category. Nevertheless, the true intention of the government is quite clear from the graph: 'hate speech' went down from 11 to 8, whereas 'government criticism' went up from 11 to a whopping 255 (more than 70% of all requests during January - June 2011). It is interesting to note that it was during this latter period that the anti-corruption movement started by Anna Hazare and others gained momentum, so it is probably correct to assume that more than the usual level of government criticism appeared online. This would then correlate with the increased number of removal requests for 'government criticism', but that still does not help Sibal's cause. The fact that the government did not identify more 'hate speech' online and request for their removal - if it really were the big problem, and the reason for governmental censoring - undermines any argument that this lawyer-turned-politician makes. Sorry, Sibal, but your case does not hold water.