En Russie, la chasse aux VPN permettant de contourner la censure s'accentue

Major Russian websites are now blocking users employing VPNs, escalating the Kremlin's long-running campaign to control domestic internet access. | Contesto: cronaca

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In a significant escalation of Russia's digital crackdown, several of the country's most popular websites have begun systematically blocking access to users connecting via Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). The move, implemented this week, directly targets a tool that has become ubiquitous for millions of Russians seeking to bypass state-mandated censorship and access blocked foreign news outlets, social media platforms, and other online resources. The action represents a technical and strategic shift from merely outlawing VPN services to actively preventing their use at the point of access on domestic platforms. The blocking measures mean that Russian citizens attempting to visit major local news portals, e-commerce sites, or government service pages while using a VPN are now met with error messages or are completely denied service. This creates a stark choice for users: disconnect the VPN to access essential domestic services, thereby exposing their browsing to comprehensive state monitoring, or maintain their privacy and forfeit access to large segments of the Russian-language internet. The tactic effectively weaponizes the convenience and necessity of local websites to enforce digital conformity. This development is the latest phase in a multi-year campaign by Russian authorities to establish what officials term a "sovereign internet." Since the early 2010s, the government has built a legal and technical architecture for pervasive online control, including laws requiring search engines to delist banned sites, mandates for telecoms to install deep packet inspection hardware, and the creation of a national domain name system. The 2019 "sovereign internet law" provided the legal foundation for Roskomnadzor, the state communications watchdog, to isolate the Russian segment of the internet from the global web during perceived crises. VPNs have been a persistent thorn in the side of this project. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent blocking of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (now X), as well as many international news sites, demand for VPNs in Russia skyrocketed. Authorities responded by outlawing the...

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