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Censorship in Russia may soon be aided by the very websites and services often used to bypass it. Russia censors its Internet through the\u00a0Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications aka the\u00a0Roskomnadzor. When Russia wants to block a site or a service, said site or service gets added to the\u00a0Roskomnadzor\u2019s Unified Register of Prohibited Information \u2013 a Russian internet blacklist of sites for use as an internet censorship filter . The Roskamnadzor then works with ISPs and mobile data providers to provide that\u00a0blacklist which is then applied to each provider\u2019s individual firewall. The most recent news shows that Russia plans to ban and block the domains of\u00a0VPNs and proxies that don\u2019t work with Russian authorities to\u00a0enforce their internet censorship filter.<\/p>\n

In Russia, some VPNs and proxy services are already working with the Roskomnadzor to block whatever the government wants<\/h2>\n

According to Roskamnzadzor press secretary\u00a0Vadim Ampelonsky, access to anonymizers is banned\u00a0in Russia because they allow access to blocked content. In fact, over 100 VPN and proxy domains are banned in Russia according to Vedomosti<\/a>. However, the\u00a0Russian authorities claim that they are now working in conjunction with such proxies and VPN services\u00a0to have them also implement the blacklist. That is to say, Russia is now seeking (and succeeding) to add Russian VPNs, proxies, and anonymizers to their list of co-conspirators in censorship. Ampelonsky emphasized that those that don\u2019t comply with Russia\u2019s regional laws would be banned \u2013 perhaps foreshadowing a new wave of VPN domain bans.<\/p>\n

Under the Unified Register of Prohibited Information, the Roskomnadzor has previously blocked everything from communication apps such as Zello<\/a>\u00a0to ISIS-linked\u00a0sites to porn sites<\/a> like Pornhub.ru (which is still blocked<\/a>). Other sites that have fallen victim to the blacklist in the past include Github and Wikipedia. Needless to say, if Russian based VPNs and proxies are cooperating with the\u00a0Roskamnadzor on blocks of whatever the government wants (aka censorships), it\u2019s entirely valid to wonder what else they may acquiesce to doing.<\/p>\n

Private Internet Access (PIA) operates no servers in Russia\u00a0for a reason<\/h2>\n

The coercive actions by the Roskomnadzor towards ISPs and VPN\/proxy providers validates PIA\u2019s decision to leave Russia in July of 2016. Under the heinous Russian Big Brother Law<\/a> which Edward Snowden\u00a0called \u201can unworkable, unjustifiable violation of rights,\u201d Russian ISPs already have to store up to 3 years of metadata and make it available. What\u2019s more, tech companies\u00a0are supposed to store whole communications, not just metadata, and are ordered to provide encryption backdoors. Even sites like LinkedIn<\/a> have been blocked in Russia for refusing to put sensitive information in Russian servers.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the passage of Russia\u2019s Big Brother Law, in July of 2016, Private Internet Access removed its presence from Russia due to an illegal seizure of our servers from our then operating Russian exit node. Because PIA servers are encrypted by default, Russian authorities weren\u2019t able to gather any useful data from the devices they seized. As the censorship ability of the Roskamnadzor grows, it\u2019s important to note that Russian internet users are still able to obtain and use\u00a0Private Internet Access\u00a0to limit the amount and type of metadata their ISPs will store on them and defeat censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Censorship in Russia may soon be aided by the very websites and services often used to bypass it. Russia censors its Internet through the\u00a0Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications aka the\u00a0Roskomnadzor. 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