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China. YouTube was first blocked in China for over five months from October 16, 2007 [7] to March 22, 2008. [8] It was blocked again from March 24, 2009, although a Foreign Ministry spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny whether YouTube had been blocked. [9] Since then, YouTube has been inaccessible from mainland China. [10]
Censorship by Google. Google and its subsidiary companies, such as YouTube, have removed or omitted information from its services in order to comply with company policies, legal demands, and government censorship laws. [1] Numerous governments have asked Google to censor content.
Retrieved 1 July 2024. Wikipedia, Facebook, Google, and other sites normally blocked in China. ^ abcdJun Mai (22 June 2018). "Chinese holiday island to unlock Facebook, Twitter for foreigners". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
e. Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
On 12 August 2015 the whole of Reddit was blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor because of a post made by a Reddit user on the site. The post is a guide for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post. [46] [47]
YouTube may suspend accounts, temporarily or permanently, from their social networking service. Suspensions of high-profile individuals from YouTube are unusual and when they occur, often attract attention in the media.
Iran is known for having one of the world's most comprehensive Internet censorship systems. [1][2][3][4] The Iranian government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have blocked access to many popular websites and online services, including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook Instagram and Telegram. [5][6] Internet traffic in the country is ...
e. China censors both the publishing and viewing of online material. Many controversial events are censored from news coverage, preventing many Chinese citizens from knowing about the actions of their government, and severely restricting freedom of the press. [1] China's censorship includes the complete blockage of various websites, apps, and ...