Russian Virtual Private Networks surge- following the Western surge.

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Russians seek to evade social media ban with virtual private networks
After Russia put a block on access to Facebook and Twitter, internet searches for ways around it shot up

In the week since the Kremlin blocked Facebook, hundreds of thousands of Russians have sought to circumvent the ban using a virtual private network. A VPN creates an encrypted connection between your device and a remote server, which can be anywhere in the world, so in theory you can access sites blocked in your country.

“By replacing their Russian IP address with that of the remote server, which will typically be in another country, using a VPN means Russians can access internet services that are blocking Russian traffic,” says Simon Migliano, head of research at Top10VPN.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ocial-media-ban-with-virtual-private-networks

People in ' the West ' have been using VPNs ever since Facebook, Twitter and other Russophobic Western mouthpieces banned access to Russian news information back in February.
Censorship stinks. It simply offers the carrot of power to the censors at the expense of the censored. Truth is the ultimate casualty.

 

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Getting the truth of what Putin is doing to the Ukraine to the people of Russia could be half the battle in this war. Like the so many ignorants in this country who believe Trump when he says he won the election there are many in Russia who believe Putin when he says he is saving Ukraine and not crushing it. Hopefully the general public there will question him more when the body bags start coming home.