[34][35][36], On February 5, 2008, Fouad Mourtada, a citizen of Morocco, was arrested for 43 days due to the alleged creation of a faked Facebook profile of Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco. [64], On 24 August 2020, after being pressured by Thai government, Facebook blocked access in Thailand from people in Thailand to "Royalist Marketplace", a private Monarchy discussion group created by Pavin Chachavalpongpun that has over one million members. The Israeli interior minister's office has said that they agreed with Facebook representatives to create teams that would figure out how best to monitor and remove "inflammatory content" online. [40], On 25 November 2017, the NetBlocks internet shutdown observatory and Digital Rights Foundation collected evidence of nationwide blocking of Facebook alongside other social media services, imposed by the government in response to the violent Tehreek-e-Labaik protests. | Sometimes life is good...", "Maurice censure le site communautaire Facebook", "Police arrest man for 'villainous' theft of prince's ID on Facebook", "Moroccan held for alleged royal ID theft", "Facebook blocked in Pakistan over Prophet Mohammed cartoon row", "Pakistan lifts Facebook ban but 'blasphemous' pages stay hidden", "DRF and NetBlocks find blanket and nation-wide ban on social media in Pakistan and demand it to be lifted immediately", "Activists assail blanket ban on social media", "All you need to know about nation-wide internet disruptions during dharna", "Pakistan suspends TV news channels and social media sites to block protest coverage", "Web Freedom Is Seen as a Growing Global Issue", "Tense situ in Teldeniya over death of assault victim", "Sri Lanka accuses Facebook over hate speech after deadly riots", "Sri Lanka temporarily bans social media after terrorist bombings", "Sri Lanka imposes curfew in Negombo after clashes, bans social media", "Temporary ban on social media platforms lifted", "Social media access restored across Sudan", "Sudan restricts social media access to counter protest movement", "Sudan has blocked Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to counter anti-govt protests", "Sudan's Bashir bans protests in new emergency measures", "Facebook reportedly plans to sue Thailand's government over its demand that the company block users within the country from accessing a group critical of its king", "After block, new Facebook group criticising Thai king gains 500,000 members", "Turkey turns off Twitter and Facebook as censorship grows", "Social media blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates", "Activists claim purge of Facebook pages", "Facebook 'suspends UK activist groups' - Channel 4 News", "Facebook Deactivates Protest Pages in Britain", "Royal wedding: police criticised for pre-emptive strikes against protesters", "Royal wedding: Three held over effigy beheading claims", "Facebook blocked in Vietnam over the weekend due to citizen protest", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Censorship_of_Facebook&oldid=979077491, All articles with vague or ambiguous time, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 17:10. Home; ... May 11, 2020 12:40 AM. [26], After the 2009 election in Iran, the website was banned because of fears that opposition movements were being organized on the website. [17], The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) of Mauritius, ordered internet service providers of the country to ban Facebook on immediate effect, on the 8 November 2007 because of a fake profile page of the Prime Minister. The 2020 World's Most Valuable Brands. In the 2015 Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders, Turkey ranked 149 of 180 countries. [77] In 2018, the government created a huge military unit to block posts containing "wrong views" online. However, since most North Korean residents have no access to the Internet,[7] China and Iran are the only countries where access to Facebook is actively restricted in a wholesale manner.