Dubai, united Arab emirates (AP) - envoy in dubai has signed a new u.n. telecommunications treaty said Friday, headed by the U.S. delegation said, through the control of the government of the Internet. The United States and other more than twenty countries 193 countries international telecommunication union refused to ratify the agreement.
Here's a look at the selected countries and regions in the world of Internet restrictions and usability:
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Many north Korea's 2.4 billion people lack access to online Internet use is greatly limited. Some koreans can access to the internal Intranet connection to the official media. Elite, foreign nationals and visitors in a hotel is allowed to complete access to the Internet.
- Iran
Most of the western social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook in Iran's blockade, and political opposition and pornographic web sites. But proxy server web sites and other methods are widely used in all official limit. Iran has announced plans to set up their own domestic Internet monitoring content, but the international experts questioned whether there is such a complete break from global network is possible. Earlier this week, Iran accounted for it have developed their own YouTube video sharing sites.
- China
China has more than 500 online, but they compete a wide range of Internet filtering and censorship, commonly known as the "firewall". The police inspector blog and domestic social media content as pornography or political subversion, and delete it. Many foreign websites, including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, the New York times blockade. Search controversial topics, such as corruption scandals of the jailed Nobel peace prize winner liu xiaobo return error messages. The user can use a proxy server to avoid control.
- Cuba
Strict control, the connection speed is slow, the cost is high, only about 5% of the Cuban people have the global Internet access, another 23% on a very limited range of content, but not in the Intranet. Web access is mainly through the public facilities, people must first registration recognition.
The gulf Arab countries,
Is regarded as a threat to the country's political website often jams. Across the gulf Arab spring since, authorities have strengthened the arrest of blog and other attack by rulers or promote political reform.
- central Asia
Across the former Soviet republic of central Asia Internet censorship is common, but the strongest restrictions have been recorded Iran's dictatorship neighboring north, turkmenistan and uzbekistan. Control is strict, in turkmenistan jotham, Facebook social networking sites and Twitter of the video sharing site, YouTube and many news site. Uzbekistan take a extreme approach for granted, but criticized the government web sites are blocked. It is these countries also challenged strongman rulers, tajikistan, this year two times to visit Facebook prohibited the use of the website web surfers criticised the government officials of materials.




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