A video-sharing platform owned by Google, YouTube is the second most popular website as of 2021, according to Alexa Internet. This company claims that they have over one billion users, and each day, those users watch an average of more than one billion hours worth of their videos. Censorship has occurred in countries around the world on this social media site in varying degrees.
List of Countries where YouTube is blocked
List of Countries where YouTube was blocked in Past
Country Name | Blocked From | Block Removed |
Afghanistan | September 12, 2012 | December 1, 2012 |
Armenia | March 2008 | April 2008 |
Bangladesh | September 17, 2012 | June 5, 2013 |
Brazil | January 6, 2007 | January 9, 2007 |
Denmark | July 2020 | October 1, 2020 |
Finland | November 30, 2017 | November 30, 2017 |
Germany | March 2009 | October 31, 2016 |
Indonesia | April 1, 2008 | April 10, 2008 |
Libya | January 24, 2010 | November 2011 |
Morocco | May 25, 2007 | May 30, 2007 |
Pakistan | September 17, 2012 | January 18, 2016 |
Russia | July 28, 2010 | August 6, 2010 |
Thailand | March 8, 2007 | August 30, 2007 |
Tunisia | – | 2011 |
Turkey | December 23, 2016 | December 25, 2016 |
United Arab Emirates | August 2006 | October 2006 |
Uzbekistan | October 15, 2018 | – |
Venezuela | – | November 16, 2019 |