{"id":56,"date":"2013-02-14T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/?p=56"},"modified":"2015-02-19T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T08:35:30","slug":"what-countries-block-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/what-countries-block-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"What countries block Facebook ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s question comes from KL from Florida, USA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What countries block facebook ? I&#8217;m going to China soon, and I want to make sure I can keep in contact with my family while abroad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From certain countries it&#8217;s not possible to visit Facebook.com. Here is the list as of 14\/2\/2013.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Bangladesh<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>People&#8217;s Republic of <strong>China<\/strong>*<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li><del>Syria<\/del>*<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*Note :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China : This does not including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao where you will be able to visit facebook.<\/li>\n<li>Syria : From time the government has blocked facebook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58 aligncenter\" alt=\"no-facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/no-facebook.png\" width=\"432\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why is facebook blocked ?<\/h2>\n<p>Generally this is done by decree of the government. In 2011, the so called Arab Spring, was for the most part, organised and co-ordinated on Facebook. For this reason the government in Egypt severed all internet connection with the outside world, in an effort to hinder people from using such services. <\/p>\n<p>By having a VPN before you go on holidays you can insure that you can access the same websites that you can at home. It&#8217;s generally advisable to setup and configure your system before you leave home to avoid disappointment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to our website asked &#8220;What countries block facebook ?&#8221;. They wanted to make sure that they could use Facebook while on a work trip to China. We look at which countries around the world block this social networking website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-questions","tag-facebook","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpn.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}