This is a list of websites with country access restrictions.
Alexa Rank | Website | Category | Primary language | Affected countries | Notes |
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? | Google Code | Source code repository | English | Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria,[1] Crimea Republic | |
166 | SourceForge | Source code repository | English | Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria,[2] Crimea Republic[3] | After an angry reaction from the community, the restrictions were relaxed so that individual projects could indicate whether or not their software should be blocked.[4] |
1947 | Coursera | Online education | English | Cuba and Iran[5][6] | Some courses may be available for Iranians in the future.[7] |
Notepad++ project moved its website outside the United States after SourceForge started to apply access restrictions.[8]
In 2009, Juventud Rebelde criticised Microsoft for blocking MSN Messenger in Cuba.[9]
In 2014, edX MOOC platform published a statement saying "we have never blocked students from receiving education on the edX platform because of where they live".[10]