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Censorship

The coming Pakistan VPN ban: PTA sets deadline for VPN users to register by June 30th

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has issued a reminder that all VPN users need to register their VPN tunnel with their internet service provider (ISP) by June 30th, 2020. This…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

China’s “New IP” proposal to replace TCP/IP has a built in “shut up command” for censorship

Updated on Jan 25, 2024 by Caleb Chen

The Chinese government and the Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei under its control are proposing a “New IP” addressing system for the internet to replace TCP/IP. The New IP…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government censorship

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Caleb Chen

Media freedom activists have built a 125 million block library in a Minecraft map called the “Uncensored Library” which contains a world’s worth of information and is available to read…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Jordan uses internet throttling instead of internet shutdowns and blocks to censor websites

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Internet blocking by governments is evolving at a fast pace, and new research shows that one government in particular, Jordan, has decided to start internet throttling instead of blocking to…

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The Indian government is reportedly cracking down on VPN usage in Jammu & Kashmir

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Caleb Chen

Safwat Zargar described the situation on the ground in Jammu & Kashmir in an article on Scroll.in, highlighting that the government is taking drastic new steps to limit internet access.…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

University of Minnesota student jailed in China for tweeting memes of Chinese President Xi Jinping: How was he caught?

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

In 2019, a twenty year old Chinese international student from the University of Minnesota was arrested, tried, and sentenced in China for tweets he made from an anonymous account while…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

The US Senate will vote on the CASE Act, which would unleash a copyright claims hell

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Copyright lawyers could soon be able to seek up to $30,000 in damages from individuals for even the simplest and most unintentional of copyright violations. Earlier this week, the Copyright…

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President Trump wants to use an executive order to make the FCC and FTC police social media censorship

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

President Trump has a plan to involve the FTC and FCC in policing censorship by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Earlier in August, CNN’s Brian Fung reported…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Private Internet Access users can now resolve internet names with the Handshake Naming System (HNS)

Updated on Aug 23, 2022 by Caleb Chen

Starting since version 1.30, the Mac, Linux, and Windows Private Internet Access (PIA) desktop clients have come with the ability to change the selected Name Server from PIA’s Domain Name…

Categories: Announcements, Censorship, General Privacy News, Guides, Surveillance

Art can change the world

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Carty Sewill

Illustration by Carty Sewill Art can change the world. Warhol showed us all the beauty in our everyday; from Coke bottles to Campbell’s soup cans. Social change is led by…

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