North Korea: Internet access is highly restricted in North Korea.Įritrea: According to Reporters Without Borders, in 2011, two of the country’s major internet service providers blocked YouTube. The block has continued through March 2014, according to Google. Pakistan: In September 2012, Pakistan blocked YouTube after the site reportedly refused to take down an anti-Islam video that sparked protests in the country. Facebook did not comment on access in Vietnam. However, in September 2013, Vietnam passed a law prohibiting citizens from posting anti-government content on the social network. The block is fairly easy to bypass, and many Vietnamese citizens use the social network. Vietnam: Over the last couple of years, there have been widespread reports of Facebook being blocked in Vietnam. Iran: Iran has blocked Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube on and off ( usually off) since they were banned in 2009 following Iran’s contentious presidential election.
In September 2013, the government decided to stop censoring foreign websites in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, a 17-square-mile area in mainland China, but these social networks are still largely blocked nationwide. The Twitter and Facebook bans took place after a peaceful protest by Uighurs, China’s Muslim ethnic minority, broke into deadly riots in Xinjiang. Here’s everything you need to know:Ĭhina: China blocked Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in 2009. There are at least six other countries currently blocking Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter in some capacity (see map below), and many more have instituted temporary blocks over the last couple of years. Turkey is hardly the first country to crack down on social unrest by going after social networks. Twitter is challenging the ban and a Turkish court overturned it on Wednesday, but it’s not yet clear how an appeal might play out. The government officially banned Twitter after the network refused to take down an account accusing a former minister of corruption.
The YouTube block reportedly came about after a video surfaced of government officials discussing the possibility of going to war with Syria. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that social networks are facilitating the spread of wiretapped recordings that have been politically damaging. On Thursday, the Turkish government blocked the country’s access to YouTube, after banning Twitter earlier this month, in an effort to quell anti-government sentiment prior to local elections on March 30.
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