Russia
A new Russian bill could see the start of Runet, Russia’s own private internet, cut off from the World Wide Web
Moscow rejects the notion that their model is similar to China’s Great Firewall.
Epic Games accused of removing copies of Detroit: Become Human from user accounts
After a bug caused Detroit: Become Human to be made free in the Russian Epic Games Store, the company has removed free versions of the game from user accounts.
The EU’s Rapid Alert System that shares info about “fake news” between member states is now in action
The European Commission has also enlisted help from “independent fact-checkers and researchers to detect and expose disinformation campaigns across social networks.
NordVPN shuts down its Russian servers in a push-back response to Russia’s over-reaching demands
NordVPN is standing strong.
Russia orders 10 leading VPNs to comply with its list of banned sites
Russia has threatened to restrict access to 10 leading non-Russian VPNs if they don’t block certain sites.
Russia Temporarily Banned The Encrypted Email Service ProtonMail
Lately, Russia has been acting very stringently and acting against privacy and freedom of speech.
Should you leave your VPN on all the time? It depends.
Some people turn their VPN on when they want to perform a certain task. Here’s how to decide whether to leave it on all the time.
Russia Is Planning to Disconnect from the Internet to Test Its Web Traffic Filtering System
The test is expected to take place before April 1 and is part of Russia’s wider plan to route 95% of all internet traffic locally by 2020.