Censorship circumvention tool helps 1.4 million Cubans get internet access
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Psiphon Inc’s freely accessible internet censorship circumvention tool has about helped nearly 1.4 million Cubans this week obtain access to websites, the company acknowledged on Friday, after Cuba’s authorities curbed access to in model social media and messaging platforms.
The Toronto-based agency’s Psiphon Network receives U.S. authorities financial assist and likewise helped people in numerous nations along with Iran and China overcome governmental restrictions on internet access.
Thousands of Cubans joined nationwide protests over shortages of main objects, limits on civil liberties and the federal authorities’s coping with of a surge in COVID-19 infections on Sunday, most likely essentially the most very important unrest in a few years throughout the communist-run nation.
Psiphon acknowledged 1.389 million clients accessed the open internet from Cuba through its neighborhood on Thursday, along with 1.238 million …