no one should have to make up your own mind dw, may feel mine's the picture this thousands of people are protesting in your country. you turn on the news, and there's no mention of it. whether it's tv or online governments, in many countries, silence. i'm wanted news. how can you get correct and objective information at all times? how can we fight online censorship? this map shows the state of press freedom from green. very good to read. bad. europe's rank is good. still, us vice president vance has accused fear of, of censorship, claiming that free speech no longer exist, c, a y in the you hate speech is legally bent and must be removed. is that censorship

that are very different opinions or what people should be allowed to say online and what not. one thing is clear in the you, people can criticize governments without punishment. but in countries like iran, china and russia authorities delete the content that is critical to the regime. even in democracies like india, free speech is not always guaranteed indian journalist non the putting the rums and online newspaper. but the newspaper social media accounts have already been blocked several times by the indian government. monday, fornia is truly passionate about reporting on issues concerning the rural community . on his website, you focus on developmental issues, face performance, and small to in the life groups. the some of the things out of our social media handles were blocked for 3 to 4 months. that's a long break for a digital publication. it's frustrating, as it prevents you from sharing your work with them to get some setting up. now go,

go to go, don't go have the kind of get to the thing. it's monday, contacted the social media platforms. he was told that they had received legal removal demands from the indian government for allegedly violating india. some information technology act. the journalist feels like he's been targeted for his coverage of the farm as protest in india. when they started in 2021, he recorded videos and reported from the ground every day who groaned with a low. it looks like the government doesn't want anyone to show the reality to prevent being shown in a bad light, the full school needs. i think you'll dictate in 2020, for a quote, go to social media handles unblocked thought the damage had been done. frequent suspensions had affected both reach and views on his channels. this also makes it hard for him to get paid for ads and campaigns. go by the most in the local, the what i say this best buy haven't been able to run the youtube channel in social media pages as well as before. the revenue is also gone down. it's very hard. we

used to be a team of 3 to 4 people, but i'm alone now, i'm seeing several weeks i've come to them and it's not just critical. journalists like monday poor a targeted activists are also put on the immense pressure the role of social networks and the companies behind them is complicated. companies like ex google and made tests sometimes follow the last no questions off, which is why we can't see all content everywhere online. but how that's broken content actually work. every time we connect to the internet and data gets and hang on, let's try this instead. you mentioned a password with an address and send the info password if need to cross several, let's call them check points. the internet's postal service consists of routers or service in the system. there are many loopholes where governments kind of interest to you in terms of how government's restrict access to information on the internet

. i would say they can act at 3 different levels. this is a tool for us to, from the open observatory of network into appearance with colleagues, arturo montes internet's censorship. and also noticed the 3 most common strategies for internet censorship use like governments. they can either interfere at the level of uh, let's say, the internet's address book dns, so they can choose to give you the wrong directions in terms of accessing a particular site. the domain name system translates an ip address to a readable website name like www dot. com or sorry, terry and regimes offering control dns service. this way that can be registered domain. this clocks the translation from domain name to ip address and makes the website in accessible. in some cases, they might just close the roads. they might say, when you're trying to go in

a certain direction, your pockets will not go through any more. you're going online, you probably have a contract with an internet service provider. government controlling internet service providers can blacklist the website i piece when you try to access a website surveillance, cuz he does check whether the side has been blacklisted. and if it is on the blacklist the ice, the blocks the connects or in other cases they might look at specific features or properties of your traffic. and they might decide that certain classes of traffic are allowed or just allow the d, p i as in advance method of examining and managing network traffic. governments use it to scan entire websites, including that protocol, score specific keywords. it flagged the connection is blocked. you might

receive an error message on your browser, even though in reality you're being sensitive. when it comes to censorship, china is known to be highly effective. the government's so called great firewall keeps the country isolated from the rest of the internet by law. all computers in china must have government approved software, which blocks blacklisted websites. instead, chinese use. those have to rely on state control platforms. the goal, complete, call control over what information people can access. the aim is to keep criticism out. governments i even trying to silence critics in other countries. all who gave, who knows that all to well, the blogger and activist from other by john lives in the west. but even here, she's targeted online via social media. leaving social media is not an option. if you are a local critic and this is what you do while still living abroad, you need these platforms to amplify your message. and so it becomes this game of

cat them. now this is like what, what kind of profile do i need to do? i stay on one social media for my work and then i leave other social media for big for, for safety reasons as well. gabriel have relies on social media platforms. the done list has been living abroad for many years. but that hasn't stopped the as a by johnny government from targeting her. she receives a lot of hate speech and she's convinced it's state controlled to her companies like metal x, a part of the problem. the company that operate as social media platforms have become tools in the hands of the sierra autocratic governments that rely on these platforms to target their dissident and exiles community members. they create of course, a lot of towns they told these individuals and we can talk about all i harassment. we can talk about the death threats. there's the incense online,

which then could also potentially lead to offline measures. even though she's living abroad as who doesn't feel safe, the threats from the regime effect to she feels authority should do more to protect people. because in so me case studies that i've read and interviews that i've read and people have spoken to police does not take you seriously. when you, when you show up at their, at their, at their door and, and tell them i've receive, i don't know, hundreds of messages on my instagram, and i don't know what to do. and they like all, you know, just instagram, who cares? so what can we do to protect ourselves from censorship and refreshing and bypass it? one way is to stay in visible online. another trick is to excess blocked websites by making it look as if you're visiting from another country. on top of that, do not reuse passwords and show that websites you're sharing your information with a secure and stay updated on what tools you can use.

a very common tool is using virtual private networks of the pn beastie ends, route to internet traffic through a secure server in another location. they hide your real ip address so that it seems like you're browsing from somewhere else. one example is sites that which combines vpn and proxy technology proxy service act as intermediaries between uses and service. the connection has been faster and more secure. with size and uses can access restricted content. take you around, for example, since 2009 door to village websites has been blocked by the uranium government. but through siphoned dw continues to reach many uses them. in september 2024, our website was accessed from iran, 3000000 tons, 75 percent of those visits were enabled through the d w site. and at this moment to consider you should also worry about not being tracked. and there are

a lot of things that can leads to you being tracked even if you're using a vpn. so my recommendation to you would be to use something like tor. the tool network is another powerful tool, short for the on en route to, to enable and none of us internet activities by using a global network of service. this makes it incredibly difficult for thirty's to track or block jo tibbetts. the name on in route to is a reference to it's many layers of encryption. each layer at security and left to access websites without revealing your identity. you encrypt and technologies also look promising they could make online censorship even more difficult. so things that look very promising are solutions like encrypted dns, which make the address book of the internet. more secure, encrypted dns prevents your internet service provider from spying on your web

activity. already directing you to pages with limited content this and show us that even just looking at the website remains private. protecting your privacy browsing anonymously. that's not just useful for journalists and activists. it helps everyone to avoid surveillance and tracking. unfortunately, criminals can also take advantage. so what's more important freedom or security? the question doesn't just apply to anonymous browsing, but also to what we say online. on the one hand, we don't one fake news and hate speech. on the other hand, we don't want censorship in the us, almost everything is covered by freedom of speech. even fake news, insults or extreme is content in the you platforms like meta and ex, have been legally required to delete this type of content since 2024. you don't mask enjoyed events have called this sense of ship. what can and cannot be set on like is

a cultural issue. clearly we all need to talk about the right balance between freedom and security inside the expert public public. one of the big challenges, of course, is ensuring that this conversation also involves sort of organizations and institutions from the global solve. so those countries that are not necessarily represented in big policy discussions in the future, most internet use us will live in the global south. we have to ask ourselves, what's the right balance between freedom of speech and security? take online? should people be allowed to say anything even hate speech? or do we need clear limits? tell us what you think. so you next time the is the traditional knowledge, the future media deals naturally dies for the damage. we extract the died the,

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