Top countries blocking multimedia & video
Ranked by total measured blocking volume in this category.
- #1severe100125youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #2severe7594youtube.com
- #3severe7492youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #4high6986youtube.com
- #5high6682youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #6high6682youtube.com
- #7high6682youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #8high5873youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #9high5366youtube.com
- #10medium4860youtube.comtumblr.cominstagram.com
- #11medium4253youtube.cominstagram.com
- #12medium4252youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #13medium4151youtube.com
- #14medium3848youtube.com
- #15medium3847youtube.cominstagram.com
- #16medium3746youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #17medium3544youtube.cominstagram.comtumblr.com
- #18medium3544youtube.comtumblr.cominstagram.com
- #19medium3240youtube.com
- #20medium2835youtube.comtumblr.cominstagram.com
How we measure multimedia & video
The MMED category covers video sharing, streaming, podcasts, and image-heavy social platforms. Blocking these is a common middle-ground tactic: it cuts off the most viral political content without the international backlash of blocking news outlets directly.
Voidly correlates network-level measurements (DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP) from OONI, CensoredPlanet, IODA, and our own probe network. Each blocked domain is mapped to a Citizen Lab test-list category, and the topic API filters those measurements to category MMED.
Scoring: within a topic, a country's score is a percentile against the worst country in the same category — so the top-ranked country always scores 100. This avoids cross-topic distortions. Full methodology →
Example domains in this category: youtube.com, instagram.com, tumblr.com, twitch.tv
Embed this on your site
Drop this iframe into any page (newsroom, advocacy site, dashboard) — it auto-updates.
<iframe
src="https://voidly.ai/widget/embed?topic=multimedia"
width="100%"
height="500"
frameborder="0"
title="Voidly censorship: Multimedia & video">
</iframe>API access
Free, no auth required, JSON, CC BY 4.0. Cached at the CDN; live every 5 minutes.
curl https://api.voidly.ai/data/censorship-index.json?topic=multimediaconst res = await fetch(
'https://api.voidly.ai/data/censorship-index.json?topic=multimedia'
)
const data = await res.json()
console.log(data.countries[0])