{"id":137226,"date":"2022-03-22T05:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/russia-forcing-google-to-delist-vpn-websites-but-400000-russians-are-downloading-vpns-daily"},"modified":"2022-03-22T05:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:02:18","slug":"russia-forcing-google-to-delist-vpn-websites-but-400000-russians-are-downloading-vpns-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/russia-forcing-google-to-delist-vpn-websites-but-400000-russians-are-downloading-vpns-daily","title":{"rendered":"Russia Forcing Google To Delist VPN Websites, But 400,000+ Russians Are Downloading VPNs Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-forcing-google-to-delist-vpn-websites-but-400000-russians-are-downloading-vpns-daily2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia is forcing Google to delist URLs associated with virtual private networks, or VPNs, but almost half a million Russians are downloading the technology that allows them to obscure their internet usage and access government-blocked websites.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Russians are looking for uncensored information about their government\u2019s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurfshark conducted an analysis showing that the Russian telecoms regulator (Roskomnadzor) has forced Google to delist more than 36,000 URLs that link to VPN services over the past month,\u201d a Surfshark representative told me via email. (The company offers a VPN product.) \u201cThe most significant spike of requests was recorded amid the second week of the war, when the Kremlin banned various media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, while others left due to a \u2018fake news\u2019 law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is forcing Google to delist URLs associated with virtual private networks, or VPNs, but almost half a million Russians are downloading the technology that allows them to obscure their internet usage and access government-blocked websites. Clearly, Russians are looking for uncensored information about their government\u2019s war against Ukraine. \u201cSurfshark conducted an analysis showing that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}