“The law says unequivocally if the company refuses to comply with the law, it should be blocked. Golden Frog, the Switzerland-based proprietor of VyprVPN, declared that “the strong censorship and oppression of the Russian regime was the main reason for us to avoid locating any of our servers inside Russia.” TorGuard, which is based in the Caribbean island of Nevis, decided to suddenly remove its Russian servers because it’s “dedicated to user privacy.” And they responded defiantly to Roskomnadzor’s order. The other nine-NordVPN, Hide My Ass, Hola VPN, OpenVPN, VyprVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, and VPN Unlimited-are all based outside Russia. They had 30 days to fall into line, but of those 10 VPNs, only one decided to comply: Kaspersky Secure Connection, which is run by Russia’s Kaspersky cybersecurity firm. It took a long while for Roskomnadzor to crack down on VPNs as the 2017 law allows, but in March this year, the regulator ordered 10 popular VPN providers to connect their systems to its blacklist, so their users could no longer access banned sites and apps. In a chaotic attempt to stop people from accessing Telegram, Roskomnadzor blocked over 15 million Internet addresses associated with Google and Amazon’s cloud services, causing widespread collateral damage to those companies’ Russian business users.īut many people can still access Telegram and other banned services in Russia today through VPNs that bypass the blocks. The most widely-publicized blacklisting episode was last year’s attempted blockage of the encrypted-messaging app Telegram, after the app’s proprietors refused to turn over encryption keys to the authorities so they could read people’s messages.
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