Censorship, Privacy and Internet

Some governments are censoring articles, books, movies, anything that makes them look bad. Some mobile and desktop applications are selling, sending, or analyzing your data without your consent. There are a lot of examples on these two subjects, but I will talk about only two examples in this blog post.

Censorship In Turkey

In my country Turkey, censorship is a big problem. A few years ago, when the current government took charge of the country, they censored Wikipedia, VPNs, books, articles, and all sexual stuff on the internet and TV.

However, this did not stop people from accessing those websites, books, movies as there are always a couple of VPN providers that are not blocked.

Zoom

This happened very recently, just after a few weeks after COVID-19 quarantine. Everyone started using Zoom for online classes, meetings, work as it seemed like the best option out there, for both companies and users. After people started using it, it was found out that hackers could gain access to your Mac's camera, microphone, and root. That's not all, you can actually read more about Zoom's security and privacy flaws here.