Azerbaijan adds to the list of countries with Internet censorship

DailyBits news portal has released a rating of countries with the most strict censorship in the Internet and posted the list of the countries of softer censorship, including Azerbaijan, according to Novosti-Azerbaijan.

Near Eastern countries take the first place for the strictness of state control.

The ten countries with the most strict censorship control include:

Pakistan,
Burma,
Yemen,
North Korea,
Saudi Arabia,
Cuba,
China,
United Arab Emirates
Iran

These countries prohibit the political, anti-Islam and pornographic websites. The governments are able to control and bloc any undesired information. These countries prohibit criticism of the working political regime and bloc the religious and pornographic websites and most biggest western services, have internet police and a special structure to control the internet, which watches the forums and controls them.

The list of countries with less strict measures of censorship by DailyBits assessment includes:

South Korea,
Thailand,
Singapore,
Vietnam,
India,
Turkmenistan,
Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan,
Oman,
Bahrain,
Azerbaijan,
Syria,
Jordan,
Ethiopia,
Sudan,
Libya,
Tunis,
Morocco and others.

"Novosti-Azerbaijan"