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A recent regulation in China caused a popular VPN service provider to announce that it will be shutting down on the 1st of July, this year. The regulation is supposed to ban telecommunication companies and internet access providers from setting up or renting VPNs, to bypass local online restrictions without the proper approval.

In a recent turn of events, the Iranian government is cracking down on Telegram. In January this year, at least 32 Telegram users have been detained for “inciting sexual misconduct and creation of immoral content as well as false profiles”. According to the department of Justice in Iran, the 32 detainees posted profane content on their ac

On Friday, the first part of a bill was approved by a unanimous vote that would illegalize VPNs or any other software used to bypass the online restrictions placed by the Russian Government.

China drops yet another shocking decision in a string of notorious internet censorship rulings. Today, some giant media platforms, including: Sina Weibo, iFeng and ACFUN have been ordered to stop streaming any video content on their websites.

A warning against social media and entertainment platform giants, including: Facebook, Youtube and Netflix; has been issued by the government of the kingdom of Thailand if they do not register their OTT (Over-The-Top) services with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) of Thailand.

Russia's internet watchdog, Roskomnadzor briefly blocked Google's Russian domain "Google.ru" on Thursday (June 22, 2017) over tax controversy.

Tech giant Google announced in a post on its blog on Sunday that it will take strong steps to implement severe measures to battle terrorism and violence by singling out and removing all extremist and terrorist-related content from its popular video sharing platform, Youtube.

Australia's prime minister said on Tuesday that officials from the Five Eyes alliance, which includes: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will gather next month in Ottawa, Canada in a meeting to discuss plans to direct technology companies and firms into disclosing encrypted data.

On Tuesday (June 13th), the Egyptian government has extended its efforts to reinforce its internet sovereignty by blocking VPN providers as well to restrict any possible access to the banned websites since VPN services allow users to bypass any geo-retractions and unblock any restricted web content on the internet.

In an attempt to further step up its ability to censor the internet, Russia sets its foot down on web anonymiser services, such as: VPNs by introducing a bill at the state parliament the "Duma" to ban these services should they allow access to any restricted websites in Russia.