# Meetup (ميتأب)

> Meetup is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: Declined
- Company: [Meetup](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/meetup.md)
- Categories: Events & Ticketing, Forums & Communities, Local Business Listings
- Official site: https://www.meetup.com
- Community votes: 4
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/meetup

## About

Community platform for discovering and organizing local in-person and online events around shared interests

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria, verified by community testing in April 2026 with an HTTP 451 legal-restriction page. The team contacted the company in April 2026, and after an automated acknowledgment the company's Trust and Safety team declined in April 2026 to restore regional access, citing legal and regulatory obligations and offering no timeline for reconsideration.

## Official timeline

- 2026-04-30 — Declined. Meetup's Trust & Safety team responded via legal@meetup.com declining to restore access for users in Syria. The reply, sent by a named team member, cited ongoing legal and regulatory obligations and stated that full compliance with all applicable laws and internal policies must be ensured before any change to regional availability is made. The team committed to share the feedback internally and reflect any future changes in platform availability, but provided no timeline or pathway for reconsideration. The reply is a substantive human review, not an automated acknowledgment.
- 2026-04-25 — Company Responded. Meetup's Trust & Safety team sent an automated acknowledgment from legal@meetup.com confirming receipt of the unblocking request submitted minutes earlier. The reply assigned a ticket and stated that a member of the team would be in touch, but did not provide a timeline, named contact, or specific commitment. The response appears to be an automated ticket-receipt acknowledgment rather than a human review.
- 2026-04-25 — Contacted Company. UnblockSyria sent an official outreach email to Meetup's legal department at legal@meetup.com, the address designated for legal notices in Meetup's Terms of Service. The email requests a review of Meetup's Syria IP restrictions, which currently return an HTTP 451 "Unavailable For Legal Reasons" response from the Varnish CDN edge layer, in light of the lifting of the comprehensive U.S. Syria sanctions framework in 2025 (Executive Order 14312, OFAC's removal of 31 CFR Part 542, and the repeal of the Caesar Act). The email references Reddit, Medium, and Stack Overflow as community-platform peers that have already restored access, and offers to facilitate engagement with Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology if helpful for compliance review.

## Community reports

- 2026-04-24 — Investigated. Community testing confirmed that Meetup is blocked in Syria. Accessing meetup.com from a Syrian mobile connection returns a Varnish-served «Error 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons» page (error code 54113), indicating sanctions-related access restrictions applied at the CDN layer. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/m7xmfj9ddt9mb1qkvbkebuax/jj37snzkzkehvjli18axj9d4-1000075288.png)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/meetup?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/meetup/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/meetup
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/meetup.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/meetup.md