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Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong and the SAR's charter, the Basic Law of the SAR, specified that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy except in matters of defence and foreign affairs. [2]
A majority of apps and websites blocked are the result of the companies not willing to follow the Chinese government's internet regulations on data collection and privacy, user-safety, guidelines and the type of content being shared, posted or hosted. This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites in the country (except Autonomous area).
Countries blocking access to The Pirate Bay; B. List of websites blocked in Belgium; C. List of websites blocked in mainland China; N. ... List of websites blocked in ...
According to a Harvard study, at least 18,000 websites were blocked from within mainland China in 2002, [97] including 12 out of the Top 100 Global Websites. The Chinese-sponsored news agency, Xinhua, stated that censorship targets only "superstitious, pornographic, violence-related, gambling, and other harmful information."
Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information.
The list was not updated in 2013. In 2014 the list grew to 19 with an increased emphasis on surveillance in addition to censorship. The list has not been updated since 2014. When the "Countries under surveillance" list was introduced in 2008, it listed 10 countries. Between 2008 and 2012 the number of countries listed grew to 16 and then fell ...
As of June 2010 more than 8000 major and minor websites were banned, most of them pornographic and mp3 sharing sites. [185] By 2013 the number of blocked sites had grown to slightly under 30,000. [184] Among the web sites banned are the prominent sites YouPorn, Megaupload, Tagged, Slide, and ShoutCast.
Nevertheless, the U.S. State Department has reported that the central government authorities have closely monitored Internet use in these regions, [16] and Hong Kong's National Security Law has been used to block websites documenting anti-government protests.