VPNs Keep the Lights On in a Darkening Web

VPNs have become the last untrimmed edges of an internet now landscaped for control, the hidden paths through a garden that was once a wilderness.

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For years, the internet was treated like an uncontrollable wildfire, a messy, democratic playground where power didn’t quite know what to do with itself.

Now it is being rebuilt into something far more manageable. Governments that once threw up their hands at the chaos of online life have realized they can control it after all, provided they hide the hand that is doing the shaping.

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