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What is geoblocking? Why it happens and how it works
You might open a website and find certain products missing, be redirected to a local version of a store, see region-specific pricing, or get a message saying a service isn't available where you are. T...
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Roblox IP ban: What it is and what you can do
Roblox enforces community guidelines to keep the platform safe and inclusive for players and content creators. Users who break these rules may face enforcement actions, which might include an IP ban, ...
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What is a walled garden?
A walled garden is a digital environment managed by a single tech company, such as Apple or Meta. Within this closed space, the company controls what users can access, how data is shared, and which ap...
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Hacktivism: What it is and how it works
Hacktivists combine technology and activism, using digital tools to seek political or social change, often by challenging institutions. However, their actions raise difficult questions about legality,...
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Q&A: Alex Gladstein on smuggling forbidden media via USB sticks
Image courtesy of Alex Gladstein. Alex Gladstein is chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), a non-profit organization that works to promote and protect human rights international...
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How to survive an internet shutdown
Internet freedoms have been declining for a decade now, according to reports by Freedom House. Internet shutdowns in particular have been one strategy that we’ve seen frequently in recent years. Wi...
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Interview: Encryption expert Riana Pfefferkorn on the erosion of online free speech
This post was originally published on August 20, 2020. Riana Pfefferkorn is the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS), a technology...
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Interview: Meet the person protecting human rights activists amid mass surveillance
Front Line Defenders’s Mohammed Al-Maskati has spent most of his life fighting for human rights in Bahrain and the Middle East. But in recent years, human rights activists have increasingly faced th...
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Tor crusader Chuck McAndrew discusses privacy, freedom with ExpressVPN
The Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire, made headlines last year after becoming the first library in the U.S. to offer free, anonymous Internet via Tor. Advocates around the world were qu...
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