Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, also known as Roskomnadzor, has slowly been leeching away free access to information from the Russian public. Roskomnadzor’s latest move is DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) filtration technology, an eerie “big brother” tactic designed to heavily restrict...
Russia has implemented media censorship for a very long time. Anything that questions the government or the state of political affairs in Russia is censored. The long arm of the government often intimidates people into self-censorship – they don’t want to be on the receiving end of forced silence. There...
On March 27th 2019, TorGuard was sent an official request from the ROSKOMNADZOR, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in Sphere of Communications Information Technology and Mass Media—asking that we cooperate with Russian authorities and block websites on demand, according to state approved country-wide blacklists for Russian users. At...
