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Tag: censorship

Satellite is helping the internet to slip beyond authoritarian control

2026-01-202026-01-20 Danie
A person holding a smartphone displaying "NO INTERNET" with a Wi-Fi symbol crossed out, indicating a lack of internet connectivity.

“A recent Reuters report on Iran’s escalating battle with Starlink highlights why that playbook is starting to fray. Tehran has spent years perfecting censorship and surveillance, yet it now finds itself struggling to contain a […]

Blogcensorship, satellite, technology

How Tor Can Help You Be More Anonymous on the Internet

2025-12-022025-12-02 Danie
Close-up of the Tor Browser app on a smartphone screen, displaying its logo, rating of 4.4 stars, and download size of 92 MB.

Whilst a Tor browser can access normal HTTPS websites, it can also access onion websites and the dark web (where there is no age verification required). The linked article is quite comprehensive in that it […]

Blogcensorship, darkweb, privacy, technology, tor

Be Careful What You Wish For — What is RedNote, the Chinese social media app that US TikTokers are flocking to?

2025-01-142025-01-14 Danie
Modern storefront with large glass windows, red interior lighting, and signs featuring Chinese characters. Leafless trees and shrubs line the sidewalk.

As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media […]

Blogban, censorship, socialnetworks, technology

Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship

2024-03-122024-03-12 Danie
Purple background with title Tor in white font. The letter o appears as an onion.

The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting the Tor network by hiding connections in plain sight. It makes it harder to block Tor connections by […]

Blogcensorship, technology, tor

With Russia blocking 167 VPN services: How to make your VPN undetectable and bypass geo blocks

2023-11-012023-11-01 Danie
The VyprVPN options screen showing an option to choose Chameleon - Anti-Censorship and it explains "our proprietary protocol designed to bypass geo-blocks so you're invisible to governments, corporations and ISPs. Enjoy open access, wherever you are".

The head of the Russian department responsible for identifying threats to the “stability, security and integrity” of the internet, has revealed the extent of the Kremlin’s VPN crackdown. Former FSO officer Sergei Khutortsev, a central […]

Blogcensorship, privacy, technology, VPN

eQsat: a satellite feed designed to look like a television station, intended to get news into a country with a total Internet blackout

2023-09-252023-09-25 Danie
Loys of balck and white TVs stacked on top of each other, all showing snowy signal screens with noise on

Over the first 138 days of this year, digital rights group AccessNow estimates there were 80 internet shutdown incidents across 21 countries. Feldstein says that all free internet advocates can do is keep innovating. And, […]

Blogcensorship, InternetBlackout, technology

How Countries (including 1st World) Censor and Control the Internet

2023-03-092023-03-09 Danie
Hand plugging an Ethernet cable into the port of a router

The internet is not so free as it seems: even outside of authoritarian countries like China and its Great Firewall, many people are routinely denied access to sites that have content authorities deem harmful (Australia […]

Blogcensorship, privacy, Shadowsocks, technology, VPN

Help people circumvent censorship: operate a Snowflake proxy which is as easy as installing a Firefox or Chromium based extension

2022-10-162022-10-16 Danie
snowflake schematic

Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed […]

Blogcensorship, privacy, snowflake, technology

Tor Browser now bypasses internet censorship automatically

2022-07-152022-07-15 Danie
Tor

In the new version, users no longer have to manually try out bridge configurations to unblock Tor. Tor Browser version 11.5 comes with a new feature called “Connection Assist”, which assigns automatically the bridge configuration […]

Blogcensorship, privacy, technology, torbrowser

Why Telegram became the go-to app for Ukrainians – it is very large groups and broadcasting, more than pure security, but that’s not all

2022-03-252022-03-25 Danie
telegram

Telegram has several key features that make it an appealing option for communications relating to the war. It facilitates public and private groups of up to 200 000 users (where individuals can send messages and interact), […]

Blogcensorship, messenger, technology, telegram, ukraine

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