Study reveals the most censored countries on the Internet
A new study published by Comparitech.com - the site that specializes in comparing privacy tools - revealed the most censored countries on the Internet around the world.
According to the study, North Korea is still under the first position as the most watched country on the Internet, then its neighbor China came second, then China, Russia in third, then Russia, Iran, and Turkmenistan.
For country classification, the site focused on 10 factors: restricting torrenting services, banning torrenting services, restricting sexual content, banning sexual content, restricting political media, banning political media, restricting social media networks, banning communication sites, restricting VPN services, and banning VPN services .
After looking at all of these factors, North Korea achieved the full score, as it prohibits everything, then the Chinese came with 9 points, then Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran with 7 points.
Although internet censorship is becoming a major problem worldwide, an increasing number of countries are trying to strangle or control content online over one way or another. However, governments realize that users are using VPN services to bypass the ban.
It is noteworthy that the study does not include cases of disconnecting the Internet from citizens, which is a major problem in a number of countries, including India, which has become increasing its control over the Internet, especially after the recent measures that were described as unfair against its Muslims and Muslims in the disputed Kashmir region with Pakistan .
A new study published by Comparitech.com - the site that specializes in comparing privacy tools - revealed the most censored countries on the Internet around the world.
According to the study, North Korea is still under the first position as the most watched country on the Internet, then its neighbor China came second, then China, Russia in third, then Russia, Iran, and Turkmenistan.
For country classification, the site focused on 10 factors: restricting torrenting services, banning torrenting services, restricting sexual content, banning sexual content, restricting political media, banning political media, restricting social media networks, banning communication sites, restricting VPN services, and banning VPN services .
After looking at all of these factors, North Korea achieved the full score, as it prohibits everything, then the Chinese came with 9 points, then Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran with 7 points.
Although internet censorship is becoming a major problem worldwide, an increasing number of countries are trying to strangle or control content online over one way or another. However, governments realize that users are using VPN services to bypass the ban.
It is noteworthy that the study does not include cases of disconnecting the Internet from citizens, which is a major problem in a number of countries, including India, which has become increasing its control over the Internet, especially after the recent measures that were described as unfair against its Muslims and Muslims in the disputed Kashmir region with Pakistan .
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