Yesterday it became known that the Russian authorities want to introduce a series of new restrictive measures against VPN services. For starters, block replenishing your Apple ID balance from your mobile account (this will make purchasing a VPN more difficult) and charging for traffic using the VPN. In the future, this may add administrative responsibilities for VPN users.
At Medusa, this news is very disturbing and very angry. For several years we have been observing how the Russian authorities constantly prevent their citizens from accessing information that they cannot control. Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube are blocked. Sometimes mobile internet works, sometimes it doesn’t. WhatsApp and Telegram, the country’s most popular instant messaging apps, also barely function. Now they are trying to isolate Russians from VPN services that help bypass blocking. Yes, it is not always convenient, but it is still a relatively simple way to open a window on the global Internet. Now they want to close the window.
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