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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.
May 2026, measured per-ISP: Discord is blocked on ~92% of Turkish networks and Telegram on all 13 Pakistani ISPs we sampled, while a VLESS + Reality VPN restored access on 90–99% of networks across Turkey, Pakistan, India and Indonesia.
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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