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Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Internet censorship in Vietnam is implemented in the country, according to a 2009 report from Reporters Without Borders. [1] Vietnam regulates its citizens' Internet access using both legal and technical means. The government's efforts to regulate, monitor, and provide oversight regarding Internet use has been referred to as a "Bamboo Firewall ...
Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information. In addition to countries, the table includes information on former countries, disputed countries ...
Early versions of Lantern allowed users in countries having free internet access to share their internet connection with those who are in countries where the network is partly blocked. [8] Network connections will be dispersed between multiple computers running Lantern so it will not put undue stress on a single connection or computer. [ 9 ]
Currently, the block is mostly circumvented by using proxy servers outside the firewall and is not difficult to carry out for those determined to do so. The mobile Opera Mini browser uses a proxy-based approach employing encryption and compression to speed up downloads.
1. Click on the Start Button, and then click Settings. 2. In the Settings Menu click Network & Internet. 3. In this window make sure you have Ethernet selected on the left side and then click on Windows Firewall on the right side. 4. On the left side of the window click Turn Windows Firewall on or off. 5.
Its role in internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic. [2] The Great Firewall operates by checking transmission control protocol (TCP) packets for keywords or sensitive words. If the keywords or sensitive words appear in the TCP packets, access will be closed.
Following the 2009 election protests, Iran ratified the Computer Crimes Law (CCL) in 2010. [39] The CCL established legal regulations for internet censorship. Notable provisions of the CCL include the following: Article 10, which effectively prohibits internet users and companies from using encryption or protecting data in a manner that would "deny access of authorized individuals to data ...