Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
The raid took place at the Gothenburg office of Mullvad VPN on April 18th, 2023.
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Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 spotted this story in today’s New York Times. (Also re-published in the Seattle Times.) In early 2020 a team of U.S. and Chinese scientists “released critical data” on the speedy spread and lethality of the coronavirus… Continue reading How China Censored Research About Covid-19
A proposed Indian government unit to fact-check news on social media is not about censoring journalism nor will it have any impact on media reportage, a federal minister said on Friday. Reuters reports: Recently amended IT regulation requires online pl… Continue reading India Says New IT Fact-Checking Unit Will Not Censor Journalism
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Russian government has banned more than 10,000 websites for content about the war in Ukraine since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The blacklist includes Facebook, Twitter, I… Continue reading The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship
By Owais Sultan
In today’s world, censorship and suppression of free speech are rampant in many parts of the globe. Governments…
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“Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race,” reports the British newspaper the Time… Continue reading Roald Dahl eBooks Reportedly Censored Remotely
By Deeba Ahmed
Interestingly, Telegram is also part of this ban, although it is owned by Russian millionaire Pavel Durov.
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Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several ways Congress might ban TikTok, each with different efficacies and side effects. In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it.
There’s no doubt that TikTok and ByteDance, the company that owns it, are shady. They, like most large corporations in China, operate at the pleasure of the Chinese government. They collect extreme levels of information about users. But they’re not alone: Many apps you use do the same, including Facebook and Instagram, along with seemingly innocuous apps that have no need for the data. Your data is bought and sold by data brokers you’ve never heard of who have few scruples about where the data ends up. They have digital dossiers on most people in the United States…
“A group of Stanford University professors is pushing to end a system that allows students to anonymously report classmates for exhibiting discrimination or bias, saying it threatens free speech on campus (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source)… Continue reading Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech
Is it possible for a country to restrict any encrypted internet connection to some computer outside of the country, or if absolutely necessary just use a mitm(man-in-the-middle) to guarantee they can see the content? I know that the user w… Continue reading Why encrypted internet connections can’t be censored or blocked by a country willing to do it? [duplicate]