Governments rarely block Zoom; China cut it off from September to November 2019. Most limits are Zoom’s own: it bars places under US sanctions, like Iran and Cuba, and since 2020 has sold in mainland China only via local partners.
By the vpnAlert team · Background checked on 10 Oct 2026 · Tested every day since 29 Sep 2026 ·
How we test · Report a wrong result
Every day we open Zoom from inside 24 countries, mostly over home broadband, and record
where it’s blocked, since when and how.
0 of 24tested countries with a confirmed block of Zoom
No confirmed blocks in the 24 countries with current results. 24 of 24 results confirmed in the last 48 hours.
Blocked means the networks we test there failed to open zoom.us, twice, while it opened elsewhere.
“Turned away by the site” means Zoom itself refused visitors from that country.
“In our tests since” is when our own tests first showed the result, not when a ban began: where it reads “our first test”, the block may be older. Older results are excluded from current totals.
China is the one government known to have blocked Zoom outright. Zoom says Beijing turned its service off without warning in September 2019 and asked it to comply with Chinese law, including naming an in-house contact for law enforcement requests and moving China-based user data to China. After Zoom met officials and presented a plan, the service was unblocked on 17 November 2019. Since 23 August 2020 Zoom has sold in mainland China only through local partners.
Zoom’s pandemic boom in 2020 brought security scrutiny rather than blocks. In April 2020 Citizen Lab found that meeting encryption keys could pass through servers in China even when no participant was there, and Zoom admitted that some calls had been routed through Chinese data centres by mistake. Taiwan’s Executive Yuan barred government agencies from using Zoom on 7 April 2020, and India’s Home Ministry said it was not for official use, calling it “not a safe platform”.
Zoom’s own rules shut some places out. Its terms forbid using it from countries or territories under US trade sanctions, naming Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine; that is Zoom’s decision under US export rules, not a block by those governments. In April 2021 Zoom was reported to have barred its distributors from selling to Russian government agencies and state-owned companies, and a Russian senator suggested blocking Zoom in return.
China’s pressure on Zoom also reached users abroad. Around the June 2020 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, Zoom ended three commemoration meetings and suspended five host accounts, four in the US and one in Hong Kong, after the Chinese government called the events illegal and demanded action. Zoom reinstated the accounts and said requests from the Chinese government would no longer affect anyone outside mainland China.
Key dates
Zoom reportedly bars its distributors from selling to Russian government agencies and state-owned companies; a Russian senator suggests blocking it.
Zoom stops selling to and directly serving users in mainland China, leaving the market to local partners.
At the Chinese government’s demand, Zoom ends Tiananmen anniversary meetings and suspends five host accounts, then reinstates them.
Taiwan bars government agencies from using Zoom, citing security and privacy concerns.
Citizen Lab finds Zoom sending meeting encryption keys through servers in China, even for meetings with no one there.
China cuts off Zoom without warning; it is unblocked on 17 November 2019 after Zoom presents a plan to meet Chinese legal requirements.
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History
Changes for Zoom
No confirmed changes since monitoring began on 29 Sep 2026. When a block appears or lifts, and a re-check on several machines agrees, it shows up here.
Method
How we test
Test machines on the two biggest home-internet providers in most countries open the homepage every day.
A failure counts only when it happens twice on the same network, while the site opens from other countries.
A change is published only after re-checks a few hours later and again the next day, on several machines per provider, confirm it. It’s dated from the first sighting.
Test machines caught getting around blocks, through a VPN or a filter-dodging tool, are set aside.
We test websites, mostly over home broadband. Apps, calls and mobile networks can behave differently.
Zoom’s terms forbid using it from countries or territories under US trade sanctions, naming Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. That restriction is Zoom’s own, under US export rules; it isn’t a block by those countries.
Can You Use Zoom in the UAE?
Yes. In September 2024 Gulf News listed Zoom among 15 calling and meeting apps allowed in the UAE because they are licensed by TDRA, the regulator that treats internet calling as a regulated activity there.
Which Governments Banned Zoom for Official Use?
In April 2020 Taiwan’s Executive Yuan barred government agencies from using Zoom over security and privacy concerns, and India’s Home Ministry advised that it was not for official use by government officers, calling it “not a safe platform”. Neither applied to the general public.
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As of 13 Nov 2026, zoom.us isn’t blocked in any of the 24 countries in the vpnAlert Censorship Monitor’s daily test.
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