Internet Censorship: Venezuela Cuba and Bangladesh At It Again ByBill Toulas-March 1 2019.1205 Three countries showed their approach to Internet access and censorship at the end of February. Cuba Venezuela and Bangladesh are opposing the right of their people to access and critically assess any information on their own. Freedom of speech and of the press are being threatened by arbitrary barriers and restrictive laws. Once again three recent incidents of overt internet censorship demonstrate that access to news outlets and social media platforms can not be taken for granted. Countries that are in the midst of socio-political problems adopt a purely preservative and puritan ethical background or their governments actually want to take control of a situation that is threatened by different domains of the Internet. A prominent blogCuban people lost access to specific news websites in the week that passed the Venezuelan government blocked. In Bangladesh the crackdown continues as all the Isps of the country were ordered to block access to their most popular “somewhereinblog.net” blogging platform. The site serves as the online corner for the thoughts of more than 250,000 Bangladeshi bloggers, and has an aggressive content filtering policy that does not allow obscene material of any kind. Even though their method of internal control may not have been up to the standard required by the government of the country. Blogging platform supporters claim that this censorship is not about publishing inappropriate content, and is a flagrant blow to free speech. Lastly from 23 to 24 February Cuban citizens lost access to popular news websites like “14ymedio” and “Tremenda Nota.” On that day the Caribbean island’s people were invited to participate in a referendum to allow the free market. The majority voted in favor of the new constitutional law, a position supported by the government and publicly backed by the telecommunications regulator “Etecsa” in the country. Clearly news outlets that expressed an opinion that supported the “No” movement were seen as a threat and the fact that there were no official support for the blocks only shows the rationale behind the censorship action.