Russia Wants To Build a State-Run VPN. What Could Go Wrong?
What’s the latest brick in Russia’s effort to build its Great Internet Firewall? A proposal to create a government-run Virtual Private Network, co-opting a tool that has been widely embraced by Russians trying to avoid government censorship. Industry insiders…
Since the onset of all-out war on Ukraine in February 2022, Russian authorities have dropped a veil of censorship -- both overt and covert -- on news, dissent, and debate about the conflict, not to m… [+6068 chars]