Today, the online culture is booming day by day and almost all the countries are providing extending their support to grow Blogging as a profession or hobby, in their nations. But, yet there are many countries which have enforced strict laws to restrict or finish this online culture and are thus, termed as the ‘Worst Countries For Blogging’ by a US-based ‘Committee to Protect Journalists’. These oppressors are listed below:

1. Vietnam: The government in the nation created a separate department to monitor the internet activities. Bloggers here have tried hard to fill the gap in independent news, left by the state-controlled media. The bloggers here are facing a lot of difficulties are unable to change the traditional enforcement on media.

2. Iran: the atrocities on the Bloggers by the State, is evident from the news that a month ago a young blogger died in prison. The authorities here regularly harass and detain Bloggers who critically write about the political or religious figures in the nation.

3. Burma: Bloggers inside Burma proved invaluable in passing out the information during the 2007 uprisings, leading to ruling military junta blocking the internet completely for a particular period.

4. Syria : The government uses filtering methods to block politically sensitive sites. Also the internet café owners were ordered to report on customers.

5. China : The country is witnessing the most comprehensive online rules . The government relies on service providers to filter searches, block critical websites, delete objectionable content and monitor e-mail traffic.

6. Cuba : The internet in the country is dominated by the political body, only the government officials and the people in the Communist Party can use Web. The rebellious bloggers are imprisoned. At present 21 bloggers are behind the bars.

7. Saudi Arabia : The sites tackling political, social or religious issues and other sensitive issues, are completely blocked in the kingdom. The blocked site count has reached around 4,00,000.

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