because life is the main, 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 unwanted 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 content that is critical to those she, even in democracies like india, free speech is not always guaranteed. indian journalist, non the pony 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. he focuses on developmental issues, face performance ends marginalized groups. well, that's what we 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. when we get some setting up, now go go to go, don't go. how do you kind of get, get to the thing?

it's monday, contacted the social media platforms. he was told that they had received league and removal demands from the indian government for allegedly violating india 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. but the thing is that 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 to social media handles unblocked thought the damage had been done. frequent suspensions had effected both reach and views on his channels. this also makes it hard for him to get paid for ads and campaigns. go buy them as an 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 has also gone down. it's very hard. we used to

be a team of 3 to 4 people, but i am alone now. things happen to be except i'm going to them and it's not just political journalists like monday, poor 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. imagine a parcel was an address and send the info. paso 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 can interest fear in terms of how government's respect 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 censorship, and also knows the 3 most common strategies for internet censorship used by 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 wrong directions in terms of accessing a particular site. the domain name system translates an ip address to a readable website name like the w of the club. well, sorry, terry and regimes austin control the 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 fuel 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 computers check whether the side has been blacklisted. and if it is on the blacklist the eyes, 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 advanced method of examining and managing network traffic, governments use it to scan entire websites, including that protocol, score specific keywords. it's 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 incident by law. all computers in china must have government approved software, which blocks blacklisted websites instead, chinese to those have to rely on state control platforms, the goal, complete control over what information people can access. the aim is to keep criticism out. governments, or even trying to silence critics in other countries, also gave out no set 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? 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 relies on social media platforms. the done list has been living abroad for many years, but that hasn't stopped the as a badge on the government from targeting her. she receives a lot of hate speech and she's convinced it's state controlled to her companies like metal acts as 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. they're being sent 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 received, 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 and figure out who cares. so what can we do to protect ourselves from censorship and refreshing and 5 posits one way is to stay in visible on line. another trick is to excess block 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 are sharing your information with 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 to 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 and 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 users can access restricted content. take you around, for example, since 2009 door to villas websites has been blocked by the uranium government. but through siphoned dw continues to reach many use of stem. in september 2024, a website was accessed from around 3000000 times. 75 percent of those visits were enabled through the d w sites. 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 all block your activity. the name on en route is a reference to it's many layers of encryption. each layer at security and lets you access websites without revealing your identities. new encryption technologies also look promising they could make online censorship even more difficult. so things that look very promising are solutions, like encrypt the dns, which make the address book of the internet more secure. and crypted dns prevents

your internet service provider from spying on your web activity. already directing you to pages 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 x 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 certain 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 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 or the we want to take about how much history particularly put in your history still matters today. you need to know where you're coming from. what happened in the

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