Social
Networking is gaining a lot of importance these days. It includes Facebook,
Orkut, YouTube that are, on one side very useful while beaching privacy on the
other. Mainly because of the ‘privacy issues’ and ‘objectionable content’ most
social websites are banned in China and middle-east Asian countries. Following
is the list of countries where the different social networking sites (social
media) are banned,
Facebook-
It is banned in countries like China, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and UAE.
YouTube-
It is banned in many countries primarily including Turkey, Thailand, Pakistan,
China, Indonesia.
Twitter
is banned in UAE, China.
Blogger-
The famous blogging platform is banned in Ethiopia, Pakistan and China.
Wikipedia-
This famous open source encyclopedia is also banned. The countries are China,
Iran, and Pakistan.
China
blocks almost of the top websites including Google (often), Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, Wikipedia, Orkut, Technorati, Vimeo and many others. China filter-out
such sites to allow its own cyber industry to flourish and challenge the
western giants, which is no bad idea.
According
to a report, Pakistan and many Islamic middle-east Asian countries have banned
these websites beacause of ‘anti-Islamic’ content placed on them. The unrest in
the middle-east Asia is also a big reason why these social networking sites are
banned there. During such unrest, banning of social media prevents people from
communicating rest of the world, and that’s what dictators of most countries
want.
