This year hasn’t been good for Chinese users looking to retain their internet freedom. The “Great Wall of China”, China’s firewall, is getting stronger and more advanced while the government has started to target and crack down on anyone getting around it. Most anonymous proxies already don’t...
It is becoming more apparent that many governments don’t like encrypted internet. It means that internet users get to hide what they are doing, even if they are doing nothing wrong at all. Of course all of the governments that monitor their user’s traffic and activity claim that...
After a long history of censoring websites and blocking content for its large user base, China is again cracking down on VPNs. The New York Times recently reported that a large number of VPN users in some parts of the country had their mobile service cut out entirely. One user...
The Turkish Internet Censorship program lashed out again on November 13 by banning Reddit and blocking Turkey’s citizens from accessing the website. No official reasons were given for banning the website, but many speculated that it was a result of the Telecom Authority of Turkey. This entity does have...
It’s a bad time to be a free internet telephone service–as telecom companies in Saudi Arabia are banding together to form an alliance to prevent free phone apps like Whatsapp and Skype. The larger companies are taking action since free phone calls are directly cutting into their revenue...
It seems like almost every day there is some news about how China is cracking down on free speech on the internet. Social media is almost nonexistent without the use of a VPN like TorGuard, and content itself is starting to get banned or taken down so users can’t...
