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Top 10 Countries That Censor the Web
There are many countries in the Middle East and in Asia, where the information is censored by the national government. Most of the time, this totalitarian regime put restrictions on all media types, including the Internet. That is why, visiting websites or social media networks, posting personal information online, and any blogging activity, is illegal. There are punishments for all the people who are not respecting these rules, and most of the times they end up in prisons.
If you are also curious about the countries that censored the Internet, here is a top 10:
10. Turkmenistan
In Turkmenistan, people think that the Internet is a luxury, because it has a very high price. Actually, it is only a strategy of the government to make people not to use the Internet. Also, the government is the only Internet provider in the entire country, and many websites are blocked anyway. People from Turkmenistan have their emails monitored, no matter if they are using Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail. Also, all the humanitarian organization websites are blocked. The news agencies are censored as well, and any try to access it leads to serious consequences.
9. Vietnam
The Vietnamese government asked websites like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo to give all the information related to the bloggers and users who access their platforms. There is even an agency that monitors the entire content posted online by Vietnamese people, blocking all the websites that try to criticize the government. Also, the human rights organizations have their websites blocked in Vietnam.
8. Tunisia
Probably you don’t expect it, but all the Tunisian internet providers are obligated by law to report all the personal information of the users to the government. Even the IP addresses must be reported on a regular basis. With this rule, the Tunisian government tries to keep under control all the users. Also, the entire traffic is constantly analyzed by the government, and other thousands of websites are blocked, including the porno websites, the emails, search engines, translation and conversion services, and even the online documents.
7. Syria
If you are a blogger in Syria, you cannot express any kind of anti-government ideas or feelings, any opinion, because you will be arrested immediately. Also, if any website tries to criticize the government, it will be blocked instantly. Also, if you want to visit an Internet Café in Syria, you will be asked to give all the personal information, including your name and your reason to use the internet. It will be all transmitted to the government.
6. China
Even if China is such a big country, they have an extremely rigid internet censorship program. It includes all the search engines, many website, and any information which is against the government. Also, users are monitored constantly. That is not all: China blocked all the content related to the Tibetan and Taiwan independence, the brutality of the police, and even pornography and international news websites.
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