for better or for worse, the Internet is something that most of us take for granted. Our users in the US and Western Europe generally subscribe to SaferVPN customize their experience on the web so that our users in China and South Africa, for example, may choose to use SaferVPN to access sites that have been blocked by the government of their country. Read the full article on Internet censorship in the world!
The Internet censorship mapped
Mapping Internet censorship around the world can be a tedious task and we applaud the people of WhoIsHostingThis? for their impressive effort in the creation of the images you see below
data used was derived from a variety of reputable sources from all over the world, including the Washington Times, the BBC, and Freedom House The tables below will address government censorship and / or blocking torrents, pornography, political media, and. social media. Now let's see how your country stacks.
Africa
There are 54 countries on the African continent (although this is open to debate ) and it seems that each of them has its own unique perspective on the best Internet censorship practices controlled by the government with Somalia being the strictest. Although we have no servers in Africa, we have some of our fastest too far servers in the Middle East.
Asia, the Middle East and Oceania
With 23 countries restricting torrents pornography political media and social media , it almost goes without saying Asia is the poster child widespread Internet censorship. and they are not kidding. the infamous Great Wall of China has become so sophisticated that it can now identify and block traffic passing VPN and the major Internet service providers will also cut connections via VPN. In fact, the monster has become so large and powerful that in January 2014, in an attempt to block a VPN provider, the Chinese government accidentally caused Internet blackout nationwide Now, that being said, SaferVPN is running in the Middle Kingdom smoothly with the closest servers running 24/7 in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan! and Singapore. in fact, our servers are so good, we even managed to help a customer in North Korea.
Americas
Mapping Internet censorship in the Americas does not make for the prettiest cards - but this kind of a good thing, right in fact, there is only one in the government? northern half of the region which completely blocks any amount of content. Cuba blocks porn the rest of the zone maintains certain restrictions on the use of torrents, but not much further than if you access complete with anything on the web, you'll want to connect to a server based in the US.
South America [centraleet are, by a few degrees, more relaxed than there friends in the north. Although there is no censorship of data available for the French Guinea or the Falkland Islands, the data show that the limited access to Honduras torrents and media policies -. The strictest rules in the region
Europe
The activity of censorship in Europe has been crazy lately. Earlier in the year, Turkish government blocked popular sites Twitter and YouTube and during the same months, several major news sites were blocked by the Russian ISP . All this aside, Belarus, Moldova and Turkey are the highest in the region without access to pornography.
The UK has put every once in a while in the new censorship with ISPs to apply restrictions to dozens of content categories and labels on both private and public networks. the British government has now reached a level where it blocks adult sites and maintaining a master list of sites that meet the government criteria. Users can, however, opt-out of the porn blocker
How private Internet life is in your country
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