What does each censor actually target?

“Country X censors the internet” hides the more revealing question: censors what? Take every domain a country blocks nationally (confirmed across at least three independent networks), match it to its Citizen Lab content category, and a clear signature appears. Some governments hunt political speech; others police morality; a few wage war on the tools people use to get around them.

Each country's blocked domains are rolled into three deliberately low-contestation focus shares — political speech (news, human rights, political criticism), regulated “morality” content (gambling, adult, drugs), and circumvention tooling (VPN / anonymity). Iran and Russia come out as speech machines; Indonesia and Thailand lean to morality; Saudi Arabia and Turkey are mixed. Everything below is live.

Honest caveats: shares are computed only over domains carrying a Citizen Lab tag (~86% of national-block domains), never assuming an untagged domain is safe; China is under-represented because the Great Firewall registers as “anomaly” rather than a confirmed block, so its small count here is a measurement artifact, not tolerance. This describes what is blocked, not intent in any legal sense.