Global Censorship Tracker — what changed in North Korea https://censorship.my/country/north-korea/ Every addition, removal and revision to the tracked restrictions in North Korea, straight from the dataset's history. en Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:54:01 +0100 Rename DW platform to Deutsche Welle https://censorship.my/changes#62dc090e9f 62dc090e9f4a5c9ffee726f3c02ed406b63d891c Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:54:01 +0100 <p>1 renamed.</p><p><b>Renamed</b></p><ul><li>Deutsche Welle — North Korea (complete) — was DW (Deutsche Welle)</li></ul> Rename X formerly Twitter platform to X https://censorship.my/changes#319f7eabe2 319f7eabe2f0ee4f0e67122184d51ad15a310005 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:51:44 +0100 <p>1 renamed.</p><p><b>Renamed</b></p><ul><li>X — North Korea (complete) — was X (formerly Twitter)</li></ul> Retire the CPJ catch-all and cite Turkey's DW block specifically https://censorship.my/changes#a6b7d7720f a6b7d7720f303a69958c261d37b45503d1cd9c39 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:53:45 +0100 <p>9 changed.</p><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>Al Jazeera — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>Associated Press — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>BBC News — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>CGTN — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>DW (Deutsche Welle) — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>New York Times — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>Reuters — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>Russia Today — North Korea (complete): source</li><li>WeChat — North Korea (complete): source</li></ul> Update Grindr dataset using Grindr official Help Center source https://censorship.my/changes#b78b2243e9 b78b2243e941c1fa786130f7e75e3de3b6e843ed Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:47:26 +0100 <p>1 changed.</p><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>Grindr — North Korea (complete): date, notes, source</li></ul> Clean up censorship_data.csv formatting https://censorship.my/changes#6ea8589d49 6ea8589d4946d916413ddaab61391b1ee217e7ab Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:40:48 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Russia Today — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Update platform label to DW (Deutsche Welle) to support acronym searching https://censorship.my/changes#23308837b6 23308837b65a8a6925c4839aaaccb53747fc4589 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:54:18 +0100 <p>1 renamed.</p><p><b>Renamed</b></p><ul><li>DW (Deutsche Welle) — North Korea (complete) — was Deutsche Welle</li></ul> Add Deutsche Welle censorship data and logo assets https://censorship.my/changes#e57a531995 e57a531995f47a8625b5c871886f69070ad8f8c0 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:50:29 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Deutsche Welle — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add Al Jazeera and CGTN censorship data and logo assets https://censorship.my/changes#e02e0c691e e02e0c691ec00e079014b59994e3148eda14d54f Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:49:02 +0100 <p>2 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Al Jazeera — North Korea (complete)</li><li>CGTN — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add North Korea and Turkmenistan to New York Times https://censorship.my/changes#54ee0e0832 54ee0e083275d6067dd956081a6d83db10d0a9d0 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:11:04 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>New York Times — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Make HEAVY_CENSORSHIP a fallback and add Eritrea to it https://censorship.my/changes#02e17e96fe 02e17e96fe9c2a3edf169ffacb2cf5d9cc908973 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:41:32 +0100 <p>42 changed.</p><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>BBC News — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Bluesky — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>ChatGPT — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Discord — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>DuckDuckGo — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Facebook — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>GitHub — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Google — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Grindr — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Instagram — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>KakaoTalk — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>LINE — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>LinkedIn — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Medium — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Netflix — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Odnoklassniki — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Patreon — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Pinterest — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Quora — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Reddit — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Roblox — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Rumble — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Signal — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Snapchat — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Spotify — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Substack — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Telegram — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Threads — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>TikTok — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Tinder — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Tumblr — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Twitch — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Viber — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Vimeo — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>VKontakte — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>WeChat — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>WhatsApp — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Wikipedia — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>X (formerly Twitter) — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Yandex — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>+2 more</li></ul> Replace 27 fabricated and generic sources with verified ones https://censorship.my/changes#28ff50c189 28ff50c1893c412d5b976e0cda7c4c150921a635 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:37:02 +0100 <p>1 changed.</p><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>Reuters — North Korea (complete): source</li></ul> Drop the stale WeChat Iran row and fix its Wikipedia sources https://censorship.my/changes#abf70a22c6 abf70a22c6db158fe8fac2fb751e648eb1fa34c1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:15:44 +0100 <p>1 changed.</p><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>WeChat — North Korea (complete): source</li></ul> Add Russia Today to censorship tracker https://censorship.my/changes#6e4a878e0d 6e4a878e0de24cb127b3014053c9533d0f2b79c6 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:02:54 +0100 <p>1 added, 1 changed.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Associated Press — North Korea (complete)</li></ul><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>BBC News — North Korea (complete): source</li></ul> Add New York Times to censorship tracker https://censorship.my/changes#27e5976b1d 27e5976b1da365ccfca4f13fec77c08b6ba36632 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:38:19 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Reuters — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Remove KakaoTalk South Korea entry https://censorship.my/changes#88a476d3d3 88a476d3d321667905ce542a5b9c66a17f953cb3 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:35:25 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>BBC News — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add KakaoTalk censorship data and UI assets https://censorship.my/changes#e5f69a190b e5f69a190b7f08ae564fea645fbfdc117131f220 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:33:56 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>KakaoTalk — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add North Korea to every platform https://censorship.my/changes#94c7e2c6cb 94c7e2c6cb7ad5d0042afb0bd98278a9f38c0f6c Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:37:51 +0100 <p>11 added, 1 removed, 29 changed.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>GitHub — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Grindr — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Medium — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Odnoklassniki — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Patreon — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Pinterest — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Quora — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Roblox — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Tinder — North Korea (complete)</li><li>VKontakte — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Zoom — North Korea (complete)</li></ul><p><b>Removed</b></p><ul><li>GitHub — North Korea (partial)</li></ul><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>Bluesky — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>ChatGPT — North Korea (complete): date, notes, source</li><li>Discord — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>DuckDuckGo — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Facebook — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Google — North Korea (complete): date, notes</li><li>Instagram — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>LINE — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>LinkedIn — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Netflix — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Reddit — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Rumble — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Signal — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Snapchat — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Spotify — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Substack — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Telegram — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Threads — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>TikTok — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Tumblr — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Twitch — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Viber — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Vimeo — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>WeChat — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>WhatsApp — North Korea (complete): date, notes</li><li>Wikipedia — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>X (formerly Twitter) — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>Yandex — North Korea (complete): notes</li><li>YouTube — North Korea (complete): notes</li></ul> Widen year chart for legible labels; upgrade Yandex sourcing and add Latvia/North Korea https://censorship.my/changes#7be00d5701 7be00d5701d2608424f671bdab9d7e886113aa56 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:27:04 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Yandex — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Update Tumblr ban status: remove Indonesia, add China, North Korea, Turkmenistan, and other countries https://censorship.my/changes#10694c63d4 10694c63d4894d599c376599437b86227b230045 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:42:19 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Tumblr — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add Vimeo bans for China, North Korea, and Turkmenistan https://censorship.my/changes#e00675d719 e00675d719fca5886a5eddec69b19a35fc885261 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:41:29 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Vimeo — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add Substack censorship data for North Korea and Turkmenistan https://censorship.my/changes#07072b8ff3 07072b8ff321d2abd3cc109902eea303a417fcb6 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:32:37 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Substack — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add Rumble censorship data for Brazil, Russia, North Korea, China, and Turkmenistan https://censorship.my/changes#4c2d77c6d8 4c2d77c6d8d74a0977a950e633b261f2524b9839 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:32:11 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Rumble — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add Substack censorship data https://censorship.my/changes#bd72cee7a4 bd72cee7a46548688d577b1a45b4c4ba1877a806 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:31:28 +0100 <p>2 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>ChatGPT — North Korea (complete)</li><li>GitHub — North Korea (partial)</li></ul> Add North Korea to WeChat data https://censorship.my/changes#f4df2d5bf1 f4df2d5bf1bc6a0f1a47cfd9d5a16d69746a6cc8 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:21:01 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>WeChat — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add Viber and LINE censorship tracking data including Russia block for Viber https://censorship.my/changes#bf4c6a27b5 bf4c6a27b5fa5c513041a681c595bd2a5f3d9646 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:09:03 +0100 <p>2 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>LINE — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Viber — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Add Threads platform with ban and age-restriction data https://censorship.my/changes#e52af766ea e52af766ea1a301a8dbc84cb979f6b4c8379b91e Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:56:33 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Threads — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Remove Pornhub and expand Bluesky country coverage https://censorship.my/changes#c989c44cfd c989c44cfd8ed7ab3b9422d239012a32bd532e63 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:43:03 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Bluesky — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Use British English spelling in page copy https://censorship.my/changes#831091990d 831091990d22e2f7ce5d440b163de672b0381779 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:05:19 +0100 <p>1 changed.</p><p><b>Revised</b></p><ul><li>VPNs — North Korea (complete): notes</li></ul> Add VPN Tracker with ban table and legislative efforts https://censorship.my/changes#1cbec51763 1cbec51763c92856b5dc3940885f95895f2ad67c Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:39:11 +0100 <p>1 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>VPNs — North Korea (complete)</li></ul> Move all ban data into censorship_data.csv https://censorship.my/changes#95df396aab 95df396aab9e73610f9b3b2f8ca411bcda0c062b Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:44:00 +0100 <p>18 added.</p><p><b>Added</b></p><ul><li>Discord — North Korea (complete)</li><li>DuckDuckGo — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Facebook — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Google — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Instagram — North Korea (complete)</li><li>LinkedIn — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Netflix — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Reddit — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Signal — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Snapchat — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Spotify — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Telegram — North Korea (complete)</li><li>TikTok — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Twitch — North Korea (complete)</li><li>WhatsApp — North Korea (complete)</li><li>Wikipedia — North Korea (complete)</li><li>X (formerly Twitter) — North Korea (complete)</li><li>YouTube — North Korea (complete)</li></ul>