On August 30th a document leaked that revealed the Estonian presidency (head of the European Union) revealed a new plan for online censorship in Europe. This plan strengthens online censorship and surveillance to the extremes that some consider it borderline illegal. The new plans want to increase internet control in...
Russia is one of the fiercest enemies of free speech. The Russian government thinks that the internet is mainly a tool for terrorists, which means that they have free reign to censor and block any website that could be potentially traced to terrorism or government criticism that could incite riots....
Cuba like China and other censored countries, has locked down a large majority of internet and application services. Skype is blocked in Cuba, as well as dozens of other websites. A report from the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) found that 41 different websites are blocked in the country,...
Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s largest internet service providers, just revealed that the Sweden is proposing new data retention laws at a massive scale. The law requires that data storage be extended in a multitude of ways and that internet service providers must rebuild systems to be compliant with data...
In China, a vast majority of the internet is blocked or censored, and free speech is severely limited. This year they’ve been hitting VPNs hard, and we’ve covered on the blog already on how they are targeting VPN users in China who value anonymity and unrestricted content. While...
If you’re a loyal Verizon customer who loves high quality streaming on mobile devices, the end is nigh. The reason being that Verizon is now throttling video streams on smartphones as low as 480p with some data plans getting as high as 720p. In the era of 4K–much...
