12/6/2022
Inside the Face-Off Between Russia and a Small Internet Access Firm
After Moscow erected a digital barricade in March, blocking access to independent news sites and social media platforms to hide information about its unfolding invasion of Ukraine, many Russians looked for a workaround. One reliable route they found came from a small Swiss company based nearly 2,000 miles away.
The company, Proton, provides free software that masks a person’s identity and location online.
That gives a user in Russia access to the open web by making it appear that the person is logging in from the Netherlands, Japan or the United States.
But the Russian government has found a way to block Proton, too.
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