VPNs are used around the world to access the internet without restrictions, allowing people from different backgrounds to express themselves freely. Here at TorGuard VPN, we utilize the power of our Stealth VPN service to deliver powerful encryption that can bypass internet blocks anywhere in the world. When a user is connected to TorGuard Stealth […]
It’s been a difficult number of years for Chinese citizens that want open and unblocked internet access. Starting around 2010 or so, the Chinese government began a crusade that would eventually block almost every form of modern website today–like Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Twitter and more. The reason being is that the Chinese government wants total […]
Agora, a reputable human rights groups based in Russia has published new reports on the online crackdown taking place in the country. The latest report finds that in the last twelve months, Russia has seen more than 115,000 online censorship cases with a vast majority (110,000) of these websites being successfully blocked by the government. […]
Coming April 2018 in the UK, adult websites will be required by law to verify the ages of British visitors. This invasive verification could be in the form of a driving license, passport, or recognizable ID document that would have to be uploaded or scanned to the adult website in question. If an ID is […]
While countries like Iran, Egypt, and Russia have seen some serious censorship problems with riots and heavy political unrest in the last year, nothing can compare to China. China has the strongest censorship regime in the world, blocking millions of active internet users from accessing popular websites like Facebook, Wikipedia, and thousands of other websites […]
After years of manual censorship to combat illegal and explicit content, Indonesia has finally managed to scrape together a multi-million super-AI to take control of the internet to make it “safe”. The new Indonesian internet machine reportedly cost $14 million to develop, and it uses machine learning and an AI to crawl the internet and […]
In intense political situations around the world, it’s becoming more and more common to block access to the internet to prevent government opposition. We see it daily in China, where a large majority of websites are blocked as well as services to prevent citizens from not only voicing their opinions, but spreading them as well. […]
Recently, the Indonesian Ministry of Communication just announced that they have a new form of censorship tech that will let them automate censorship in Indonesia. Previously, the Ministry had to manually input each website to be blocked. The Indonesian censorship blockade already includes over 800,000 websites that are blocked that mostly fall under a few […]
In past blog posts, we covered how aggressive Egypt is getting with censorship. So far, they’ve blocked some of the biggest websites like AlJazeera.net, TorProject.org, and Qatar TV, and they’ve even blocked VPNs in the process. Now, however, it looks like Egypt has gone full throttle and starting blocking VPNs at the source, by restricting […]
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 the EU by making changes […]
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. Now in 2017, thousands and […]
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