You’re never truly safe on the internet – especially not on social media. We’re often reminded that once we put something out onto the open internet, we can never really take it back. This is especially true when there are spies for foreign governments working at the headquarters of a social media network you use. […]
Although Hong Kong was intended to operate independently from China, they cannot escape the sentiments and influence of China’s communist party. Once regarded as the only free and uncensored area of China, Hong Kong is losing more of its independence with each passing day. This year’s National Day events have inspired ruthless protests, and the […]
The people of China have a contemptuous relationship with their oppressive communist government. Citizens rising against the government has been commonplace for decades. The Tienanmen Square protest of 1989, one of the most infamous protester and government showdowns in history, resulted in the Chinese government turning its military against its own people. Assault rifles and […]
Around the world, censorship continues to grow and expand as the capability of technology increases. We’ve seen China develop state of the art deep packet inspection techniques that allow them to isolate Twitter civil rights activists, and we’ve seen other countries like Russia block websites and encrypted messaging apps at a similar scale. But it’s […]
LinkedIn is not a bastion of privacy by any stretch of the imagination. It’s a popular website for business networking, which means that it’s easy to find online users and reveal their real-life location, work history, and other personal information to others on the web. A lot of it is due to the website’s nature, […]
China has long since built up one of the world’s most advanced and strict firewall regimes. The Great Firewall is a huge network construction working through deep packet inspection that blocks access to most major websites available internationally. The Firewall is capable of blocking more than 600,00 websites like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and more. […]
A lot of people think that internet censorship, and online surveillance is inevitable—but even so, that these things still might not have a day to day affect on their lives. It’s certainly easier to see this train of thought in countries where privacy laws are not atrocious–but in places like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt […]
Jamal Khashoggi was a notable progressive Saudi Arabian journalist who was recently killed at the Saudi Arabian consulate on October 2nd 2018. Khashoggi was very critical of the Saudi government in his newspaper articles and even on Twitter–where he was actually banned. Khashoggi is only just one example of a good journalist who paid the […]
China is home to the world’s largest censorship regime. The government spends billions of dollars censoring the internet so Chinese citizens remain unaware of global events, of historical events, and even weather and smog data. The reasoning behind such intense censorship and control is put in place so the current political forces can remain in […]
Online censorship is one of the most effective tools in preventing the spread of information in the modern era. That’s why we’ve always seen Turkey using more and more internet blackouts in the recent years. Website censorship, and other forms of surveillance have and are currently being used to control public opinion. Now, drawing closer […]
Despite a lot of pushback from internet activists and proponents of free speech, the EU has now voted in favor of a new copyright law that would automatically remove content from the internet. The new law requires media companies and internet platforms like Google and Microsoft to install filters that check uploaded content against a […]
