Famed whistleblower Ed Snowden posted a series of tweets yesterday decrying new internet censorship rules in Russia and criticizing mainstream media outlets for not giving the issue more attention. Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law that will ban virtual private networks, or VPNs, forcing internet providers to block websites that use them and effectively preventing Russians from seeing swaths of the internet. Snowden, who has over 3 million Twitter followers, implied that the story is more critical than Russia’s recent expulsion of 700-plus U.S. diplomats.
Whether enacted by China, Russia, or anyone else, we must be clear this is not a reasonable “regulation,” but a violation of human rights. https://t.co/9iFLNk53M3
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) July 31, 2017
Unreported by the major newspapers fretting over diplomats, Russia’s gov just limited its citizens right to read: https://t.co/5MGcmw4Ung
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) July 31, 2017
If the next generation is to enjoy the online liberties ours did, innocuous traffic must become truly indistinguishable from the sensitive.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) July 31, 2017
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