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Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this report from ProPublica:
As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria in early 2018, Facebook’s top executives faced a political dilemma. Turkey was demanding the … Continue reading How Facebook Silenced an Enemy of Turkey To Prevent a Hit To the Company’s Business
Signal says it is introducing a connection method for the Android version of its app that can allow users in Iran to dodge their government’s efforts to block message traffic. The announcement comes after users in Iran began reporting issues with connecting to the end-to-end encrypted chat application in January, following a crackdown by the government. In a blog post Thursday, Signal said users of the Android version will be able to download the update “in a few days.” Signal’s popularity in Iran spiked recently after the popular WhatsApp messenger announced an update to its privacy policy that allowed more data to be shared with Facebook, its parent company. Users in Iran and elsewhere flocked to other options, particularly Signal, given its reputation for privacy. Iranian government officials noticed the increase in Signal users and blocked the app. Signal, which is run by a U.S.-based nonprofit foundation, vowed to fight. It […]
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When I visit https://thepiratebay.org it is displaying a message from my ISP saying it is blocked under government rules. BUT the https icon is green and the certificate is a SNI certificate from cloudflare that my browser says is valid. T… Continue reading How is my ISP circumventing SSL on thepiratebay even though the certificate is valid?
This week MSNBC published an opinion piece from a researcher on China (who works on internet censorship and freedom of expression issues) from the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
It examines specific exchanges between a China-based Zoom executive a… Continue reading Are Tech Companies Censoring Their Users For Access to China’s Market?
Social media users in Cuba experienced interruptions to Twitter and WhatsApp service over the weekend amid protests against government restrictions on free expression, according to a digital rights group and media outlets that track Cuba. “Twitter, WhatsApp, and, at certain moments YouTube and other Facebook servers, were intermittently unavailable” from Nov. 27 to Nov. 30 through Cuba’s state-owned telecommunications provider, according to NetBlocks, a digital rights group that tracks internet activity. Some Cubans reported that Twitter and WhatsApp only functioned properly if they used virtual private network (VPN) software to mask their location. The reported service issues coincided with protests by Cuban musicians, writers and activists against the communist government’s jailing of their colleagues. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has denounced the collective of artists, known as the San Isidro Movement, as an “imperialist reality show” backed by the United States. The Cuban government has nonetheless taken the rare step of meeting with the […]
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The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship. A team from the University of Michigan used its own C… Continue reading Even the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship
Researchers from the University of Michigan used their own automated censorship tracking system to collect more than 21 billion measurements over 20 months in 221 countries. They discovered that citizens in what are considered the world’s freest countr… Continue reading ‘Extremely Aggressive’ Internet Censorship Spreads In the World’s Democracies
Zoom shut down a series of events meant to discuss what organizers called “censorship” by the company. From a report: The events were planned for Oct. 23 and were organized in response to a previous cancellation by Zoom of a San Francisco State Univers… Continue reading Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom ‘Censorship’
An anonymous reader shares a report: For months, Bui Van Thuan, a chemistry teacher turned crusading blogger in Vietnam, published one scathing Facebook post after another on a land dispute between villagers and the communist government. In a country w… Continue reading Facebook Touts Free Speech. In Vietnam, It’s Aiding in Censorship
I want to design a circumvention system for the research, can you provide some new ideas, if it is theoretical will work?
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