{"id":29473,"date":"2020-10-01T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29473"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:12:18","slug":"survey-finds-49-of-russians-have-faced-online-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/survey-finds-49-of-russians-have-faced-online-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey finds 49% of Russians have faced online censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VPN service TunnelBear published the results of a study on internet censorship, surveying residents of Russia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Norway and Sweden. 44% of respondents say that they themselves or people they know personally have been subjected to censorship online.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We conducted a global study about online censorship, and found that nearly half of internet users don\u2019t trust the integrity of information they find online, with those in the USA feeling most impacted.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2kyr9mWGFs\">https:\/\/t.co\/2kyr9mWGFs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TunnelBear (@theTunnelBear) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theTunnelBear\/status\/1311334999103287296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted by TunnelBear in collaboration with 3Gem Global Research in September, involved 5,500 people aged 18 to 65.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, the United States experiences the strongest effects of online censorship, followed by Norway and Sweden; Russia ranks third.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111864\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship_infographic_1-1-300x138.png\" alt=\"Poll: 49% of Russians faced internet censorship\" width=\"820\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship_infographic_1-1-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship_infographic_1-1-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship_infographic_1-1-768x354.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship_infographic_1-1-1536x707.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship_infographic_1-1-2048x943.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds (69%) of respondents believe that information transmitted over the internet in their country could be censored.<\/p>\n<p>29% of respondents said they would begin using VPN services if they saw compelling evidence of internet censorship by authorities. One in four respondents was not familiar with the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the public organisation RosKomSvoboda stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/roskomsvoboda.org\/64602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stated<\/span><\/a>, that \u201cthe results of the company&#8217;s research are surprising in terms of how low Russians&#8217; perception of online censorship is compared with the other countries included in the sample\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The particular irony of the situation is that TunnelBear has been blocked in Russia since May 2018 by a decision of the Dyurtyulinsky District Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan (the text of the decision, for some reason, has not been published publicly),&#8221; RosKomSvoboda writes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year, Roskomnadzor, under the threat of blocking, demanded that owners of 10 major VPN services connect to the state information system.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the services refused to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VPN service TunnelBear published the results of a study on internet censorship, surveying residents of Russia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Norway and Sweden. 44% of respondents said that they themselves or people they know personally have been subjected to censorship online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,167,1448],"class_list":["post-29473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-censorship","tag-research","tag-vpn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29475,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29473\/revisions\/29475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}