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Internet Censorship Map 2026
Censorship isn't a national switch — it's enforced network by network. We probed real ISPs in five countries to record exactly what's blocked. Here's the map, service by service.
Each bar shows the share of sampled ISPs on which a service was unreachable from a normal residential connection. Higher = more widely blocked.
🇹🇷 Turkey
Turkey's regulator (BTK) blocks Discord, eSIM providers (a fresh 2026 ban), most commercial VPN websites, piracy and adult sites. Messaging apps like Telegram stay open.
🇵🇰 Pakistan
The surprise of the survey: Telegram is blocked on every ISP, yet X/Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Wikipedia were all open at test time (X was unblocked in 2025). For general browsing, Pakistan was the lightest of the five.
🇮🇳 India
India enforces adult and piracy bans near-nationally and bans TikTok (Chinese-app order), but enforcement is famously decentralized — Dailymotion was blocked on only ~29% of ISPs, and Telegram/Reddit stayed open. The same site can be blocked on one carrier and fine on the next.
🇮🇩 Indonesia
Indonesia's "Trust+Positif" filter targets adult content, Reddit, piracy, 4chan and Vimeo. Reddit's ~85% (not 100%) matches its known on-and-off blocking.
🇦🇪 UAE
The most total censorship of the five: VPN provider sites, dating apps, adult and gambling are blocked across the board. The UAE's signature restriction — VoIP calls (WhatsApp/FaceTime) — is enforced too, though that's a separate (UDP) measurement.
Does any of it get through?
Yes — in the same survey, routing these blocked hosts through a modern VLESS + Reality tunnel restored access on 90–99% of the networks we tested (Turkey, Pakistan, India, Indonesia). The UAE's VoIP block is the exception — it's a UDP problem a website-style tunnel doesn't solve. Full numbers and method on the How We Test page.
A note on what we publish
We share what's censored and how well modern protocols survive it — the public-interest part. We deliberately keep the specific evasion parameters private, because publishing them would simply help censors block them.
Method & limits in brief: figures are the share of ~13–21 sampled ISPs per country (UAE: all 3) where a host was unreachable from a residential connection, May 2026, computed from validated probe sessions only. "Blocked" means "unreachable," not a precise classification of mechanism, and may occasionally reflect geo-restriction rather than state censorship for smaller sites. Samples are representative, not a census. See How We Test for the full methodology and caveats.
Frequently asked
Is Discord blocked in Turkey?
Yes. In our May 2026 survey Discord was unreachable on ~92% of the Turkish ISPs we tested — and a VLESS + Reality VPN restored access on the large majority of them.
Is Telegram blocked in Pakistan?
Yes — Telegram was blocked on every Pakistani ISP we sampled (13 of 13). Notably, X/Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Wikipedia were open at test time.
Which of these countries censors the internet the most?
Of the five we measured, the UAE — VPN provider sites, dating apps, adult and gambling were blocked across all national ISPs, with VoIP calls (WhatsApp/FaceTime) restricted on top.
Does a VPN still work in these countries?
In our testing, a modern VLESS + Reality tunnel restored access on 90–99% of networks in Turkey, Pakistan, India and Indonesia. The UAE's VoIP block is the exception — a separate (UDP) problem.
Why is the same site blocked on one network but not another?
Some countries — notably India — enforce censorship per-ISP rather than centrally. Dailymotion, for example, was blocked on only ~29% of the networks we tested: fine on one carrier, blocked on the next.
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