The Verge

MARCH 20, 2021

Twitter is planning to establish a legal entity in Turkey to continue operating there under the country’s controversial internet law that took effect last year , the company announced late Friday. Illustration by Alex Castro.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

The Wikimedia Foundation has issued a statement supporting Russian Wikipedia volunteers after a censorship demand from internet regulators. Tuesday’s takedown request threatened censorship. Denying people access to reliable information, at a time of crisis, can have life-altering consequences,” warned the Wikimedia statement.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Do you want to protect your online identity, stay safe on public wifi or bypass censorship on the internet? What is a VPN? How is it used? Why is it needed now more than ever before? Then this article is for you. First a little background on how. The post Three VPN use cases you should know about appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

Reuters reported the news this morning in an interview with Nicholas Rasmussen, executive director of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). There’s a lot of concern of over-censorship, especially when there are such close ties to politics,” says Saltman. There’s a lot of concern of over-censorship”.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2020

Global tech companies operating in Hong Kong have expressed concern that the new law could force them to comply with China’s draconian censorship standards and possibly send user data to the mainland. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a major Chinese internet company.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Check Point has also observed the sharing of open VPN servers for the purpose of bypassing censorship, as Iran has limited the use of internet and social media. Check Point Research reports that key activities include leaking and selling government officials' phone numbers and emails, as well as maps of "sensitive locations.".

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The paper that got Gebru fired detailed potential risks associated with large language processing models, including over-relying on data from wealthy countries that have more internet access. Google managers asked Gebru to retract the paper or take her name off it, a request she said felt like censorship in an interview with Wired.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Chinese citizens’ access to the internet is heavily regulated, and there is restricted access to technologies like virtual private networks, or VPNs, which help citizens evade tracking and bypass censorship.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

In combination with its changing IP addresses, this meant that when Roskomnadzor, Russia’s internet censor, tried to block Telegram, other sites and services got caught in the crossfire, according to Andrei Soldatov, a Russian investigative journalist and security services expert. And they blamed Telegram, not the Russian authorities.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The shift toward proactive moderation is likely to inflame conservative concerns about supposed censorship on AWS, launched when Amazon abruptly discontinued Parler’s hosting after the platform refused to remove a string of violent threats. Parler sued Amazon in the wake of the decision, although it has found little success in court.

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2019

We talk a lot about censorship resistance. Of course, the reason we worry about censorship resistance is because we don't want any third party to be able to deprive a person or organization of their ability to use Sovrin. This is just as true about identity as it is about the Internet of Things. Facebook and Twitter are not.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

In a blog post , LiveLeak founder Hayden Hewitt did not give an explicit reason for the site’s closure, saying only that: “The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people.” LiveLeak grew out of the “shock sites” of the early internet.

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Network World

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Bypassing online censorship in countries where internet access is controlled by the government can be very hard for users. Developers of the popular Signal secure messaging app have started to use Google's domain as a front to hide traffic to their service and to sidestep blocking attempts.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Some activists called the action censorship , while others accused of Twitter bowing to government overreach. The protests have been building since November, and have resulted in violence, deaths, and internet blackouts in parts of the country’s capital region.

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Network World

AUGUST 12, 2016

Pakistan’s National Assembly has passed a cybercrime bill that provides for censorship of the internet and could also be misused by the vagueness of some of its provisions. Section 34 of the new Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act gives authorities the power to remove or block access to a variety of content.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship — and there’s no easy solution. If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. What happens next in Russia may continue to splinter the open internet. Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship and there’s no easy solution. If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. What happens next in Russia may continue to splinter the open internet. Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images.

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Network World

JANUARY 18, 2017

VPNs can also get past regional restrictions for video- and music-streaming sites and help you evade government censorship restrictions—though that last one is especially tricky. The best way to think of a VPN is as a secure tunnel between your PC and destinations you visit on the internet.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Being compliant with regulation of all sorts, while being true to the principles of Sovrin (PDF) and protecting against censorship, is a fine line. This is the key to global adoption of the identity metasystem that provides a universal trust framework for the Internet. The SGF is a public statement of how the Sovrin network functions.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

We must do more to secure the Internet against state surveillance and other intrusions into our personal privacy. Many of the techniques NSA has used to subvert Internet security and online privacy are not technological, but rather, are legal or economic. If we did not know that before, we certainly do now. None are guaranteed to work.

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

Cyber attacks against critical infrastructure were mentioned, but as in the past, were framed as a “potential” future threat that could “perhaps” result in sabotage during a wider conflict ( page 10 ).

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Galido

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The main methods used by criminals to acquire personal information of victims using the Internet are: Virus. VPNs can also overcome regional restrictions for streaming video and music sites and help you evade government censorship restrictions. How Criminals Get This Data.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

A lot of internet bystanders were getting ready to make trouble for Russia — and they were going to use the mantle of Anonymous to do it. Internet users suspect that this may be another action by the hacker group #Anonymous , which declared a cyber war to Russia in connection with the attack on #Ukraine.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Summary: The self-sovereign internet, a secure overlay on the internet, provides the same capacity to produce change by numerous, unaffiliated and uncoordinated actors as the internet itself. This article explores the properties of the self-sovereign internet and makes the case that they justify its generativity claims.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the plot points involves using certificate authorities (CA) for censorship. To review briefly, certificate authorities are key players in public key infrastructure (PKI) and are an example of a core internet service that is distributed and hierarchical. Hierarchical networks are especially vulnerable to censorship.

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Vox

JUNE 2, 2021

That’s important for Google, a company billions of people rely on every day to navigate the internet, and whose core products, such as Search, increasingly rely on AI. Thousands of professors, researchers, and lecturers in computer science signed a petition criticizing Google for firing Gebru, calling it “unprecedented research censorship.”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Ted Cruz, rarely seen operating in good faith on any subject, largely set aside his questions about censorship to ask Haugen about data exploring the link between Instagram and self-harm. It was refreshing, then, to see members of Congress wrestling with the company’s own internal data.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

Age of AI, LLC has introduced a censorship-free, encrypted AI chatbot called FreedomGPT. In addition, FreedomGPT may be used without an internet connection. It is offline-capable, so you can use it even when you don’t have an internet connection. It is censorship-free, private, and offline-capable.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Voat, an “anti-censorship” alternative social network that’s been described as the “alt-right Reddit,” is scheduled to shut down on December 25th. The site set a model for other “censorship-free” alternatives to mainstream web platforms, a category that grew to include Gab, Parler, and the defunct crowdfunding site Hatreon.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JUNE 24, 2022

The splinternet idea is simple: instead of the single, global, open internet that early network pioneers intended, we actually now have multiple unconnected internets.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Russian government has told 13 mostly U.S.-based based tech firms that they need to set up local offices in Russia by next year or maybe just get the hell out, according to Reuters. Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Enabling Apple’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter in the iOS Screen Time setting will block users from seeing any Google search results for “Asian” in any browser on their iPhone. That’s not great, folks. Read more.

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Phil Windley

MAY 11, 2020

Summary: Creating a network of networks, where multiple ledgers serve as anchors for credential definitions, has consequences for the overall system's ability to resist censorship. The issue I want to address in this post is what is the impact of Network of Networks architecture on censorship resistance. Censorship.

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Gizmodo

JULY 13, 2021

Cuba’s government has restricted access to social media in the country amid raging protests over economic turmoil stemming from the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.

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Phil Windley

MAY 6, 2020

Summary: Creating a network of networks, where multiple ledgers serve as anchors for credential definitions has consequences for the overall systems ability to resist censorship. The issue I want to address in this post is what is the impact of Network of Networks architecture on censorship resistance. Censorship.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After spending close to half a year combing through the UK government’s proposed Online Safety Bill , Ofcom—the UK parliamentary wing responsible for overseeing broadcasting and telco businesses throughout the region—finally dropped its suggestions to tighten the drafted legislation. The 194-page report is chock-full… Read more.

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