COUNTRIES WHO BANNED SOCIAL NETWORKING

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.

Source: http://yourravi.com/countries-who-banned-social-networking-websites/