The State of Internet censorship in Lithuania (Beginning of 2018 Edition)

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:14:24 +0000

Unfortunately but the specter of Internet censorship has finally came to Lithuania a few years ago. It was rampant already in some European countries but I never thought that it would come to Lithuania as well. I thought that this country was different… nope, it started to slowly transform and become like others in terms of Internet censorship as well.

History

As far as I can tell everything was fine up until around 2008, 2009. It all began when on 2010 July 8th a court in Lithuania, Vilnius satisfied a lawsuit by which foreign gambling companies such as “bet365 Ltd.” and “Unibet International Ltd.” were blocked from doing their business in Lithuania. Accordingly, their websites must be blocked, the court said. The decision was appealed and the court case dragged further into the future.

Internet on Giedrius Statkevičius

The State of Internet censorship in Lithuania (Beginning of 2018 Edition)

History