Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
These generally have heavy filtering or restrict access to the internet by various means.
While the above may not come as a surprise, there is also a 'countries under surveillance' list:
Australia, Bahrein, Belarus, Eritrea, Malaysia, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
The standout in this list may be Australia, although I freely admit bias to this (I guess it is often made out to be the USA of the south). Australia is on this list due to filtering systems put in place to try to combat child sex abuse/pornography (http://en.rsf.org/australia-open-letter-to-australia-s-prime-18-12-2009,35379.html). Additionally, internet in public schools in Australia is heavily filtered (at least the school I volunteered at), and did not even allow access to e-mail clients.
Belarus recently introduced a decree where internet providers in the country will have to keep a record of their client's internet use for a year (and hand it over to the government on request), also they have to block access to sites within 24 hours if requested (http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Calls_Belarusian_Internet_Decree_A_Step_In_Wrong_Direction/1948755.html).
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