Unblock Facebook with a VPN

In the following countries, all Facebook activity is banned, as the website is simply not accessible at all: China, North Korea, Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Syria. In each of these cases, there is some form of political motivation present behind the blocks. Facebook provides an easy opportunity for groups of people to voice their opinions and to organize activities together. The leaders of the above countries do not prefer people conducting potentially anti-government activities with the help of Facebook, so they decided to block it. We also argue that next to politics, the preservation of the countries’ cultural identities might also be a reason behind blocking Facebook in these parts of the planet. People from different cultures have a space to interact through this website, and China and North Korea’s leaders especially oppose the idea of outside influence.

Other states, like Germany, Morocco or the UK welcome Facebook within their borders. Some restrictions happened in these cases though, such as persecuting an individual who created a fake account of a Moroccan royal family member, or removing hate speech from Facebook in Germany. So while the website is allowed to function, the internet law environment of these countries slightly limit the ways people can express themselves.

In these countries, or any that can potentially suffer drawback from their stricter and stricter internet laws (like Australia, France or Italy) we would like to recommend using a VPN service. This is a legal solution anywhere in the world. Countries do not sanction it; they only try to prevent people from using it indirectly, such as blocking access to the VPN companies’ websites (China). A VPN service solution is effective because of two reasons. First, a VPN provides access to the online content of countries you otherwise cannot view. By temporarily changing the IP address of your device, you can make it think as if it was located in the USA, the UK or whichever state a given company supports. Second, this connection is protected by encryptions. The most often used types of it are OpenVPN and L2TP, which do a great job securing your data while keeping your connection up to speed.

To list you some companies worthy of attention for use with Facebook, we recommend giving a look to HideMyAss (lot of locations), ExpressVPN (the fastest), ibVPN (great variety of plans) and VyprVPN (probably the safest with extras).