Internet usage in Qatar has skyrocketed, but Internet access is also heavily censored. The country’s filters primarily ban material that could be considered critical of Islam. 

Besides that, Qatar authorities restricted access to political criticism, dating services, sexual health resources, gay and lesbian content and etc. Access to social networking websites is limited.  If you plan on travelling to Qatar, sign up for a VPN before you go to acccess your favorite websites in Qatar, and prevent your activity from being monitored. read more...

China VPN ban came into effect  on March 31, 2018 but Trust.Zone VPN still working in China with no issues for 95% chinese customers. read more...

Blogging service Medium is not available in China anymore – according to recent reports. Majority of Medium users in China confirmed that Medium has been blocked by Great Firewall in China. Experts suppose that the main reason is a recent Medium update, allowing publishers to host their content on the site.  It means the blogs that may have previously been banned in the region to become available to internet users in China. A few days ago, Time and The Economist were also blocked by Chinese authorities. The websites were blocked as a result of recently published articles about China.

Virtual private networks (VPN) could be blocked under new copyright and privacy law being considered by the Senate in Australia.

It may affect a lot of Australian users who used VPN service to unblock websites and bypass geo restrictions. The high increase in VPN usage is happening because Australians are becoming tracked from government agencies online more often every day.

Portugal became a world leader in pirate site blocking in 2016-2017. Back in summer 2015, Portugal’s government agency signed a memorandum of understanding between copyright owners and Internet service providers, and by now Portugal has already blocked 330 websites and is not going to stop. read more...

The Chinese authorities has two major ways to control what Chinese internet users see on the internet: “The Great Firewall” - the system of restricting access to popular websites and services like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Gmail, YouTube and etc. and “Golden Shield Project” - the system of censorship which blocks “unfriendly” incoming traffic and data from outside of China. read more...

UAE Internet Filtering and Censorship focused on politically sensitive material, some social networking services, all Israeli domains, religiously sensitive websites, dating, and pornography. Besides that, all VoIP services like Skype, Viber, Whatsapp and other SIP bases services blocked.  Parts of Wikipedia, social networking websites hi5, Friendster and many other are also blocked.   If you plan on travelling to Dubai or other UAE’s city, sign up for a VPN before you go to access your favorite websites and services  in UAE, and prevent your online activity from being monitored by UAE authorities. read more...

Online censorship takes many forms. Government agencies may block regular foreign e-mail services in order to enforce citizens to use government e-mail that can be easily tracked.  Companies may prevent employees from visiting Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks.  Campuses may restrict access to social networoks and etc read more...

Recently, Brazil has banned the popular messaging application WhatsApp. Judge in Brazil issued a court order blocking the WhatsApp for 72 hours in the whole country. This case had a short term and successful conclusion. It’s still banned in UAE, Qatar. There are many connectivity issues with WhatsApp, Viber and Skype in China. Last year the UK PM David Cameron expressed a desire to ban WhatsApp, Snapchat, iMessage in the UK.

With a VPN internet users are able to unblock any VoIP and text messaging services like WhatsApp, Snapchat, Viber, Telegram and other. Here is guide how to overcome censorship and blocking of chat applications.

Access to popular social networking websites Twitter and Facebook was completely blocked after the terror attack in Ankara. The Turkish government blocked any news coverage the deadliest act. The official statement said that the Turkish Prime Minister has imposed a temporary broadcast ban regarding the terror attack conducted in Ankara. According to Trust.Zone VPN stats, ban of Twitter and Facebook in Turkey was leading to a huge jump in VPN subscribers from Turkey. Turkey is currently up over 320% and still growing. read more...