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07/01/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Must-see documentary on Netflix: Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

When your usual way of life is threatened by forces that are too powerful and big for you to battle, what would you do? Would you sit in a corner and allow these forces to overwhelm you, or would you push back and try to fight it, no matter the cost? This is the main theme […]

02/15/2017 / By News Editors

China just made VPNs illegal, government fights for complete control of the internet

Chinese authorities block access to big-name websites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and numerous others, and to thwart these restrictions, many residents on the mainland use virtual private networks. Starting this week, that could be a crime. Use of VPNs and special cable connections in China must now be approved by the government, essentially making […]

02/09/2017 / By Randall Wilkens

Big brother: Facebook built censorship tools to gain access to the Chinese market

Social media has taken many various twists and turns throughout the past few decades. Some would say it began all the way back in the days of Prodigy, the precursor to the now virtually defunct America Online. For the first time users could not only access the remarkably less vast internet (given the time period), […]

01/27/2017 / By Mary Wilder

Canadian beauty queen censored over comments critical of Communist China

Freedom of speech hasn’t exactly been appreciated in other parts of the world the way us folks in the United States endorse it, but things have gotten even more absurd. Anastasia Lin, a beauty pageant queen and Miss Canada 2015, has been silenced by the organizers of the Miss World pageant after she criticized the manner […]

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