Internet Shutdowns and the Law
When governments order the internet off: legal justifications, international law, accountability, and why no VPN can restore a full shutdown.
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Guide
Evergreen explanatory content: what something is, how it works, why it matters.
14 articles of type guide
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VPN Bans and Regulation: What the Law Actually Does
How laws restrict VPNs without always banning them outright: blocking obligations, app store pressure, licensing, and the gap between regulation and technical blocking.
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What Makes a VPN Resistant to Censorship?
Censorship resistance is a property of six layers, from the bytes on the wire to the cloud provider, the CDN, and the response to a probe. Protocol is one of them.
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What Is Maronix?
Maronix is a privacy project in launch mode: VLESS inside REALITY, independently run servers, Telegram-first access and a trial sized for real use.
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Why Maronix Uses VLESS + REALITY
VLESS brings no encryption of its own and REALITY borrows a real site's handshake. Why Maronix pairs them, what each contributes, and what stays exposed.
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Commercial VPN vs Independent VPN
A VPN brand tells you little about who runs it. Three real ownership structures, what each can and cannot do, and why the name on the app is the least informative part.
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How to Check That Your VPN Is Working
Four things can keep leaking while a VPN looks connected: your real IP, your DNS resolver, IPv6, and WebRTC. How to test each one, and where browser-only leak tests mislead.
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What Should You Look for in a VPN?
Choosing a VPN means choosing which party you trust, and how much. A decision procedure: which properties matter for your threat model, and which only sound reassuring.
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Privacy vs Anonymity
Privacy is about what is known about you. Anonymity is about who you are. Almost everyone who wants the first is told they should want the second.
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What Does Your ISP See?
Without a VPN your ISP can see every domain you look up and every server you connect to. It cannot read HTTPS pages. The difference matters more than it sounds.
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What Is a VPN Protocol?
A VPN protocol is a specification for a tunnel. Here is what the main ones actually decide, how they differ, and why the choice is a censorship question.
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What Is a VPN?
A VPN builds an encrypted tunnel between your device and a server you choose, so the network in between carries ciphertext. What that hides, and what it does not.
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What Is Internet Censorship?
Censorship is not one thing. It is DNS, ports, TLS names, packet inspection and active probing. Five layers, each answering a different question about your traffic.
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What Is Deep Packet Inspection?
DPI reads the shape of your traffic, not just where it goes. How it works, what it can classify, and why encrypted tunnels still give themselves away.