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Chiara Castro

VPN demand is on the rise worldwide – the US calls on Big Tech to step in

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As the likes of Russia, Iran, Myanmar, and other authoritarian states keep heavily censoring the internet, the demand for VPN services has never been higher.

This is why the US now urges Big Tech to better support circumvention software. On Thursday, September 5, the White House met with representatives of Amazon, Google, Microsft, Cloudflare, and civil society activists to pledge the offering of more digital bandwidth for government-funded internet censorship evasion tools – Reuters reported.

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