Title: Which Countries Have the Strictest Internet Censorship? - ReadWrite
Headings: Which Countries Have the Strictest Internet Censorship?
Which Countries Have the Strictest Internet Censorship?
How is the internet censored?
Technical measures for blocking or filtering content.
Countries with strict internet censorship.
China
North Korea
Cuba
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Vietnam
Other countries
How to get around internet censorship.
Alternate locations
Proxy servers
SSH Tunnels
VPNs
Tor
Should you circumvent censorship?
Paul Bischoff

Content: Countries with strict internet censorship. Most countries have some level of internet censorship, but covering every single one in detail would get repetitive. Instead, we’ll just talk about the standouts – those who have the strictest systems that prevent their citizens from accessing the internet freely. China
While China has widespread internet access, it also has one of the world’s most advanced and extensive censorship systems. To start with, it blocks many foreign websites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Instead, China has many of its own tightly controlled platforms such as Youku Tudou (video hosting), WeChat (social media, messaging and mobile payments), and Baidu (search engine). Each of these platforms is pressured to restrict content far more stringently than their western counterparts, which hampers the flow of information on a wide range of important topics. According to researchers from WeChatScope, some of last year’s most censored subjects included the China-US trade war, US sanctions against ZTE, and the arrest of Huawei’s CFO in Canada. These are in addition to its usual taboo topics like the Tiananmen Square Massacre, pornography, the Dalai Lama, the independence of Tibet and Taiwan, freedom of speech, and much more. Not only are these and other topics tightly controlled on Chinese platforms, but site blocking and content filtering is also in place to prevent Chinese internet users from accessing the information through other avenues.