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Multiple reporting and VPN-provider guides identify a core set of countries that either ban VPNs and Tor outright, or permit only government‑approved “anonymizers”; common names across sources include...
Available reporting and guides consistently say a small group of authoritarian states both block and seek to criminalize tools for anonymity such as Tor — most frequently named are China, Iran, Russia...
Today, available reporting portrays three Tor pluggable transports with clear trade-offs: Snowflake is widely recommended for bypassing heavy national censorship but is often slower than obfs4; meek (...
The core finding is that : most democracies permit their use, while several authoritarian states either ban or tightly regulate them, with enforcement and penalties varying widely. Reports from 2019 t...
The pause initially targeted 19 countries identified as “high-risk” in the administration’s ; those countries are , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . The agency says the selection flowed from the ...
A diverse set of countries — especially in the Middle East, parts of Asia, and several authoritarian states — or bans on pornography through a mix of legal prohibition and technical filtering . The pr...
Few sources in the provided set explicitly list countries whose constitutions or free‑speech laws expressly protect pornographic expression; reporting instead shows a spectrum: many Western democracie...
A clear minority of states explicitly ban or tightly restrict VPNs; commonly cited countries with full bans or severe controls include North Korea, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Belarus and some Gulf states, wh...
Countries vary widely in how they treat use of anonymizing browsers such as Tor: in most democracies use is legal and unpunished, but authoritarian states often block, monitor, or subject users to inc...
Most democratic countries treat Tor itself as lawful software, while prosecutions focus on specific criminal acts conducted over Tor; by contrast, authoritarian regimes often block or criminalize its ...
Laws that govern whether courts can force VPN providers to hand over user data vary by country and rest on three legal levers: whether VPNs are legal at all, whether providers are required to log or r...
States that restrict have used a mix of fines, administrative penalties, ISP blocks, and criminal charges to deter VPN use, but reporting shows few clear, documented prosecutions tied specifically to ...
Unsealed reporting and congressional disclosures say Treasury-related suspicious activity reports () and bank filings flagged tied to and named transfers routed to —most prominently and —and that thos...
There are VPN companies that advertise "no‑logs" policies and have resisted government demands, but no VPN is categorically immune to legal compulsion where it operates or stores data; jurisdictions c...
Fifteen independent countries emerged from the Soviet Union when it dissolved in 1991: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajik...