COVID19 originated in a country where censorship and surveillance are the government’s top priorities. These priorities were established in China’s response to the pandemic. The country was put under lockdown, and communications relating to the virus were heavily censored. Critics of China’s government note that this censorship may have created a difficult situation for those […]
Iran is not what most people would consider to be a free country. Iranian citizens are already forced to abide by a long list of oppressive rules and regulations, being robbed of the freedoms they so desperately want to enjoy. A new bill would create an even tighter atmosphere of control. Iran is already subject […]
Slowly but surely, Russia has been following in the footsteps of countries that have largely made censorship a priority above information. When most countries begin to make measured steps to censor the internet for their populations, an overseeing authority was established. China has a ministry specifically for the purpose of censoring the internet. A system […]
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 […]
