Facebook blocks pages insulting Mohammed in Turkey

By comparison, Facebook blocked 4,960 “pieces of content” in India, 29 in Russia, nine in the United Kingdom and none in the United States.

Until an epic fight between Google and China in 2010, Google (GOOG) in China blocked results pointing to information about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and websites supporting Tibet independence and the Falun Gong religious group. Google stopped censoring and now China occasionally blocks Google.

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