Russia Pressures Google to Remove Over 200 VPN Apps Amid Escalating Digital Censorship Campaign
#Russia’s ongoing effort to limit digital freedom escalated further in recent weeks, with the country’s internet regulator, #Roskomnadzor, targeting over 200 VPN applications hosted on the Google Play Store April 1, the Russian government issued VPN apps..
China Censors Online Discussion Amid Escalating US Tariffs and Economic Fallout
As tensions between the world’s two largest economies intensified following the implementation of sweeping new #UStariffs, Chinese authorities moved swiftly to erase domestic discussion of the issue from the country’s tightly controlled digital landscape.
By Wednesday of last week, attempts to search for terms such as “tariff” or “104” — the percentage of the new US duties imposed on Chinese imports — were met with error messages on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform. According to Reuters, the #censorship sidelined substantive discourse even as posts mocking..
#China
#Russia’s ongoing effort to limit digital freedom escalated further in recent weeks, with the country’s internet regulator, #Roskomnadzor, targeting over 200 VPN applications hosted on the Google Play Store April 1, the Russian government issued VPN apps..
China Censors Online Discussion Amid Escalating US Tariffs and Economic Fallout
As tensions between the world’s two largest economies intensified following the implementation of sweeping new #UStariffs, Chinese authorities moved swiftly to erase domestic discussion of the issue from the country’s tightly controlled digital landscape.
By Wednesday of last week, attempts to search for terms such as “tariff” or “104” — the percentage of the new US duties imposed on Chinese imports — were met with error messages on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media platform. According to Reuters, the #censorship sidelined substantive discourse even as posts mocking..
#China