10. Paquistán
9. Birmania
8. Yemen
7. Corea del Norte
6. Siria
5. Cuba
4. Emiratos Árabes Unidos
3. Arabia Saudita
2. Irán
1. China
No está claro el criterio que siguen para hacer esta clasificación. Al fin y al cabo Corea del Norte ocupa el séptimo lugar y de acuerdo con la descripción su censura es la más férrea de todas:
How does the censorship work?
Basically there is no Internet in North Korea. No servers. No service providers. Nothing. Zip.
Only a handful elite members of the government have an Internet connection, and they have it via a satellite link that is connected with German servers.
Part of the population is trying to escape this iron curtain by using 3G mobile phones and Chinese connections. This is not an effective solution, though, and even when it works the users would be subject to the Chinese censorship on the other end….
What kind of content is blocked?
Everything. North Korea didn’t even have a top level domain extension until a while ago. Now they do, and there are two websites registered on it. Both governmental….
Truth be told, they do have an Intranet which is accessible to a tiny part of the population. Those amount to 50 or so web pages, however, and they are filled with content proclaiming the wonders of Kim Jung Il and his political ideals.
Especialmente cruda es también la censura en Irán. Estos son los contenidos prohibidos por el gobierno:
In 2006 the Iranian government was already blocking the access to several popular western websites, including YouTube, Amazon and Wikipedia.
Today, anything that contains sex, politics and religion is not allowed. The number of blocked websites is estimated at over 10 million.
There are actual laws that require the media and online content providers to produce material goes promotes the state objectives and the Islamic culture as a whole.
Over 100 print and online publications have been shut down in the past for not complying with those laws.
