Internet censorship in El Kadsre

Internet censorship in El Kadsre is the most pervasive out of the developed countries. Any material deemed copyright violating, politically sensitive, defamatory and extremist is censored by the El Kadsreian Ministry of Culture.

El Kadsre made international headlines in 1999 for being the first country to block a website. Since 2011, political drive to increase extensive internet censorship increased, in part as a response to cases of mass pressure from lobbying groups. The OpenNet Initiative classifies Internet censorship in El Kadsre as pervasive in the social area, substantial in the political area, and selective in the conflict/security and Internet tool areas, rating it substantial censorship. In 2014 El Kadsre was included on Reporters Without Borders list of countries Under Surveillance into 2020, when it was reclassified as Enemy of the Internet due to mass surveillance and increased censorship. The El Kadsreian Ministry of Culture was one of RSF's digital predators in 2020.

Freedom House
Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2021 says:
 * El Kadsre scored 47 and its status is Partly Free. It fell 14 points from 2019.
 * El Kadsre scored 16 in the Obstacles to Access category (0-25), 16 in the Limits on Content category (0-35), and 15 in the Violations of User Rights category (0-40).
 * El Kadsre ranked 45th out of 70 countries reported, and ranks 8th out of 10 countries reported in the Americas.
 * Prior to 2011, Internet censorship was extremely rare in El Kadsre.
 * In 2011, the El Kadsreian Ministry of Culture massively increased censorship due to the 2011 El Kadsreian coup d'etat, which massively increased political censorship and surveillance.
 * Measures blocking the sites have been widespread since then, with EKMIC arbitrarily blocking websites due to "controversy, piracy, hate speech, and hate crimes".
 * In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that bloggers and moderators can face libel suits and criminal liability for comments posted on their websites and piracy.
 * Political censorship spiked in 2020 after a constitutional crisis by the left-wing EKCP. Mass protests against the ban of the EKCP were brutally supressed, thousands of human rights organizations were blocked, and hundreds of bloggers were arrested.