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The Censorship Evader
To change our country and fight censorship, we're more helpful in the streets than in jail.
- Is studying social science in Southeast Asia
- Is part of a group organizing a massive protest against unpopular government policies
- Uses Tails to promote the protest, avoid censorship, and talk to the international press with a pseudonym
Primary goals
- Access censored information online
- Publish sensitive information
- Hide their identity
Technology use
- Seen as tech-savvy by their group
- Publishes on a news website that is censored in the country
- Teaches others how to avoid censorship
- Uses social media as much as possible
Threats
- Harassment and monitoring of activists
- Lack of independent local press
- State-sponsored trolls
- Dissident bloggers and protesters have been jailed
- Internet connection is slow, unreliable, and expensive
Objectives
- Achieve social change without being put under the spotlight
- Let the world know about the situation in their country
- Publish information that could put them in jail
- Empower others with privacy and security tools
Background information
- Viet Tan: Vietnam Cyber Dialogue 2017 Report
- OpenNet Initiative: Update on threats to freedom of expression online in Vietnam
- Wikipedia: Censorship in Vietnam
- Wikipedia: Internet censorship in Vietnam
- The New York Times: Vietnamese Protest an Opening for Chinese Territorial Interests
- CNN: Singapore news portal on 'hiatus' after computers seized by police