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How to Protect Yourself from Authoritarian Online Censorship — And Why a VPN is Your First Line of Defence

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How to Protect Yourself from Authoritarian Online Censorship — And Why a VPN is Your First Line of Defence

In an age where digital platforms have become the new public square, the threat of government-imposed censorship is no longer a hypothetical, it’s a daily reality in many parts of the world. Whether you’re a journalist, activist, whistleblower, or simply a private citizen with an opinion, authoritarian regimes increasingly monitor, filter, and suppress speech that challenges official narratives. You need a VPN right now.

Using VPNs doesn’t necessarily mean that people are bypassing the law. It’s important to note that VPNs can help protect children’s security online, too. They aren’t just used to avoid content blocks.

UK police commissioner threatens to extradite jail US citizens over online posts We'll come after you

The Labour government has introduced a dystopian method of online surveillance called the “Online Safety Act” which is masked as “protecting young people” on the internet but is actually an excuse to censor, manipulate and monitor the entire population. It is up to parents to protect their children from the dangers of the internet — NOT the government.

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Censorship doesn’t start with tanks or arrests. It begins quietly with invisible firewalls, blocked sites, throttled connections, and silent surveillance. The good news? You’re not powerless. With the right tools and mindset, you can reclaim your digital autonomy.

Here’s how to protect your voice and your access to the open internet, starting with a VPN.

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🔒 What is Online Censorship, Really?

Authoritarian online censorship takes many forms:

  • Website blocking (news outlets, social platforms, search engines)
  • Keyword filtering (certain topics can’t be discussed)
  • Connection throttling (deliberate slowing of services like YouTube or WhatsApp)
  • Surveillance and intimidation (especially targeting dissidents or journalists)
  • Platform manipulation (state-sponsored trolling, misinformation, shadowbanning)

The goal is simple: control what you can see, say, and share.

🕵️‍♂️ Why a VPN is Essential

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) encrypts your internet traffic and routes it through a private server in another location, effectively masking your IP address and identity from your government, ISP, or local network administrator.

What this means for you:

  • Access blocked websites: A VPN lets you bypass national firewalls to reach censored platforms and news sources.
  • Avoid surveillance: VPN encryption prevents governments (and hackers) from tracking what you read, watch, or write.
  • Protect anonymity: By masking your location and IP address, a VPN gives you plausible deniability in high-risk environments.

Think of a VPN as a digital invisibility cloak—without it, you’re exposed.

✅ What to Look for in a VPN (Authoritarian-Resistant Features)

Not all VPNs are created equal — especially if you’re facing serious state censorship.

Choose one that offers:

  1. No-logs policy: The provider doesn’t keep records of your activity.
  2. Obfuscated servers: Disguises VPN traffic as normal HTTPS, helping you slip past censorship firewalls (like China’s Great Firewall).
  3. RAM-only servers: These wipe clean after every reboot—leaving no forensic trail.
  4. Kill switch: Automatically severs your internet connection if the VPN drops, preventing leaks.
  5. Multi-hop routing: Routes your traffic through two or more countries for extra protection.

Top VPNs for censorship-heavy environments like ProtonVPN give you all of these attributes to protect your online viewing and bypass the so-called “online safety act”.

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🌐 Additional Tools to Stay Safe

A VPN is powerful, but it’s not a silver bullet. Combine it with these tools for full-spectrum digital security:

  • Tor Browser: Routes your traffic through multiple nodes for anonymous browsing. Ideal for whistleblowing or access to dark web journalism.
  • Signal: End-to-end encrypted messaging, trusted by activists worldwide.
  • Brave or Firefox + Privacy Add-ons: Harden your browser with uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger.
  • Secure email: Use ProtonMail not Gmail or state-linked services.
  • Use pseudonyms: Create separate identities for dissenting or sensitive communications.

⚠️ Important Cautions

  • VPN use may be illegal or monitored in some countries. Always check your local laws and risks.
  • Don’t log into personal accounts (e.g., your real-name Facebook) while using VPNs for anonymous activity.
  • Operational security matters: Avoid patterns, reuse of usernames, or cross-platform leaks.

📢 Why It Matters

Free speech doesn’t survive by accident, it survives because people protect it, exercise it, and fight for it, especially when it’s threatened. Authoritarian censorship thrives in silence. Your ability to speak, connect, and resist online is part of a larger struggle for truth, dignity, and self-determination.

Tools like VPNs aren’t just technical upgrades — they are modern shields for your most fundamental rights.

Your voice is your power. Protect it. Use it. Defend it.

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The Daily Squib Anthology Book Now For Sale

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The Daily Squib Anthology Book Now For Sale

As the editor of the Squib, I can proudly announce that The Daily Squib Anthology From 2007 to 2022 is finally for sale.

Since founding the Daily Squib on April 1st 2007, many changes have taken place on the internet and indeed the globe. This is why this carefully curated anthology encapsulates those changes in a satirical manner. Fifteen years of different presidents, prime ministers, wars, peace and a myriad of little societal nuances that made up that period of history.

Looking for that curious unique gift for dad’s Christmas stocking, or something to read while taking the dump of the century in your toilet, the Daily Squib Anthology is the perfect celebration of our times, good and bad?

Come, join the circus, look at the clowns and listen to the troubadours as they usher in a new era for humanity, horrific yet beautiful at the same time, a glowing paradoxical dystopian paradise entrenched in reality show hell and fake celebrity appearances. All manner of fantastic beasts projectile vomiting over everything daringly encapsulating this curious rare book compiled with the indomitable spirit of Juvenalis in mind, but furnished within a modern 21st century outlook.

A bold erupting satisfying fart into the darkest and illuminating facets of humanity’s wonders, The Daily Squib Anthology is now available to buy direct from the publisher or from Amazon, or from any good bookshop.

Get your copy now, the first 150 are signed by the author.

The book will only be released in paperback.

UPDATE 2025: THE DAILY SQUIB ANTHOLOGY IS NOW DOWN TO ONLY A FEW REMAINING COPIES IN PRINT. YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE OF THE LAST SIGNED COPIES HERE.

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Far Leftists Celebrate as Their Enabled Terrorists Massacre More Jews

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Far Leftists Celebrate as Their Enabled Terrorists Massacre More Jews

The far-leftists and liberals in the West who enable and encourage terrorism against Jews were today celebrating as another massacre took place in Australia. Fifteen unarmed Jewish Australian civilians were massacred in cold blood to chants of “From the river to the sea”.

The leftist Australian government celebrated and honoured Hamas by rewarding them with a recognition of their terrorist state.

Antisemitism is habitually encouraged by the Labour leftist UK government, and Israel has been continuously punished for the crime of defending their nation after the October 7th massacres. Jews all over the globe have had to endure an increase in antisemitic sentiment, often encouraged by leftist governments and media.

Labour has rewarded the Hamas terrorists time after time, by recognising their terrorist Hamas state, and withholding weapons from Israel, thus aiding the terrorism.

The sinister left-leaning media, including the supremely biased BBC, has continually fuelled the fires of antisemitic violence, and they are all being utilised as tools by Hamas and Iran to create more hatred and violence against Jews outside and inside of Israel.

One thing is certain, because of the complicit cheering of terrorism by the West’s liberal and far-leftist Hamas sympathisers — the violence will continue and worsen day by day.

 

 

‘Open Borders’ Green Party Leader Wants More Diversity in Cottaging Industry

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‘Open Borders’ Green Party Leader Wants More Diversity in Cottaging Industry

All those hundreds of thousands of young men from Third World countries coming into the ‘open borders’ UK illegally, giving attention to, and raping under-age English girls is posing a problem for the Marxist Green Party and its new leader Zack Polanski.

“I am sick of it! Why are all these young men from Afghanistan only paying attention to young English girls?

“I was in my bijoux Hackney flat and marvelling on how shiny my new Italian marble floor was, when I remembered I had another appointment at the Hackney Public Toilets, with some dirty old bugger.

“We need more diversity in public toilets, all I get is some old white man, I need those ‘open borders’ diversity with a young Afghan man or five — oof, rape me, beat me, whip me!”

The Green Party is fighting for more ‘open borders’ from the already ‘open borders’ of the UK under the current Labour government.

The Daily Squib Sold Out!

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The Daily Squib Sold Out!

No! We did not sell out — we got sold out! The Daily Squib Anthology is sold out in the shops and now out of print. Thanks go to the publisher who had faith in the Daily Squib, a terminal project that is constantly under attack, and to our faithful readers.

We still have a few copies left, signed by the author, and we’re doing a Christmas giveaway via the banner on the front page.

Wishing you all a great festive season. We can barely walk in the Squib office and the parties have only just begun…hic!

 

“Comrades! It’s Working! Heavy Taxation Contracted the Economy by 0.1%”

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“Comrades! It’s Working! Heavy Taxation Contracted the Economy by 0.1%”

Dear comrades, I am so happy today to announce that my policies of heavy punitive taxation to fund Big State salaries and pensions and the welfare state has contracted the economy by 0.1% according to the ONS statistics. Heavy taxation is a sure way to create un-growth, poverty and destitution.

Another Labour Recession

  • Monthly GDP is estimated to have fallen by 0.1%, following a fall of 0.1% in September 2025 and no growth in August 2025.
  • Services fell by 0.3% and construction fell by 0.6%.
  • Production output fell by 0.5%, largely because of a fall in the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers in this period; this follows a fall of 0.5% in the three months to September 2025.

Laffer Curve?

The imaginary Black Holes we lied about to create an excuse to raise your taxes to the highest levels ever seen in the history of the country are testament to how one person’s lunatic actions can ruin an economy in record time.

My multiple budgets of doom have doomed you all to poverty, so now you have to work harder and for longer hours for nothing.

Now that all the wealthy have left the country due to my policies, it is up to “working people” to shoulder the entire burden.

Have a nice day. I leave you with the words of Vladimir Lenin: “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

UK TAX BURDEN

Prepare For War With Russia While EU Funds Russia by Buying Their Oil and Gas

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Prepare For War With Russia While EU Funds Russia by Buying Their Oil and Gas

Here’s one for the books, Mark Rutte the NATO chief from the Netherlands says Europe must prepare for war with Russia, but one thing he seems to omit from his statement — the EU has been funding Russia for years by continuing to buy oil and gas from Russia, therefore Europe has been funding the Russian war machine all this time.

EU Suicide

China and India buy vast amounts of Russian oil and gas, then they put it into new containers, and ship it to Europe as repackaged gas and oil supplies. This has been going on throughout the Ukrainian invasion by Russia.

Industrial pipe with gas and oilWhile Europe could buy Russian LNG for a lower price, it instead has to pay an average of five times more, just to virtue signal to the world that it won’t fund Putin’s regime, when in reality it is paying extra to both China and Russia, who are collecting a premium price thanks to the overall market conditions.

The proceeds of the revenue from China and India’s Russian oil and gas exports to the EU thus continues to fund the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, and bolster the Chinese military apparatus.

Today, Mark Rutte, the NATO chief, warned that Europe is Putin’s next target and faces a ‘scale of conflict our grandparents endured’. Well, he needs to just follow the money, and trail of gas and oil imports into Europe to see who the hell is funding Vladimir Putin’s meat grinder war, which is threatening Europe’s survival.

As the Greek oil tankers come into Europe daily from China and India full of Russian oil and gas, there is only one thing to say — why?

Stop Crying Brexit Never Happened Anyway

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Stop Crying Brexit Never Happened Anyway

It’s impossible to leave the EU. That so-called Brexit never happened is proof right there.

Seasoned traitor to Britain, Keir Starmer is handing full control of the country over to Brussels as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is the latest Cabinet Minister to hint at joining the EU Customs Union. The thing is, apart from the customs union, nothing really changed after the hard won democratic referendum. The Tories, under Boris, squandered not only their electoral mandate but the continuation of Brexit — they just abandoned it.

Under the so-called Brexit, the UK still pays Brussels billions of pounds per year (pensions/salaries £3.4 billion) and the ECHR still dictates what the UK can and can’t do. The ECHR demands the UK has no borders, and no right to deport illegal asylum seekers, rapists, murderers.

Sorry Nigel Farage, but Labour are now pissing on the British flag and Brexit at the same time. But, still, do not shed any tears for Brexit, because it never happened in the first place.

There was no Singapore-on-the-Thames, there were no benefits to prices, there were no new hospitals, and the Brexit Bus that Boris rode around in is now impounded in a garage somewhere because it contravenes Euro road standards that never went away despite the so-called Brexit. The EU makes the regulations and rules, and the UK follows, and there’s nothing anyone in the UK can do about it, or are willing to do about it. Let’s face it, Brexit never happened, and will never happen.

Tu retournes en prison …

Argentina: “We want British weapons so we can invade Falkland Isles again!”

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Argentina: “We want British weapons so we can invade Falkland Isles again!”

The Argentinian president Milei is set to visit the UK, the first time in decades, so that Argentina can have a weapons embargo lifted for high-end weaponry.

Naturally, Keir Starmer, an enemy of Britain and British interests, will give the Argies all the weapons they want so they can re-invade the Falkland Isles once again, this time with our own weapons.

Keir Starmer is no stranger to giving away British territory and has brokered an insane deal which will benefit China by giving away sovereign British territory (Chagos Islands) and paying Belt and Road Initiative prisoners Mauritius hundreds of billions of pounds to lease out our own fucking territory.

If it comes to another conflict — we’re fucked, but then again no enemy has perpetrated as much harm on Britain than Keir Starmer and his lunatic Labour Party full of traitors, cheats, liars and Marxist scum.

Economists Confirm New Discovery: Socialist Money Magically Teleports From Working People to “Lazy People” Overnight

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Economists Confirm New Discovery: Socialist Money Magically Teleports From Working People to “Lazy People” Overnight

In a groundbreaking revelation sure to shock absolutely no one, researchers at the Institute of Oversimplified Economics announced today that the world’s largest socialist pyramid scheme has finally been identified, and no, it’s not crypto this time.

According to their study, whenever a worker earns £500, a mysterious government tax gnome immediately appears, gently confiscates the cash, and redistributes it in crisp £100 notes to exactly five individuals designated as “Officially Lazy But a Guaranteed Labour Voter™.”

The process is reportedly seamless:

  • The socialist government loses one vote.
  • The socialist government gains five votes from the five lazy recipients.
  • And the government appointed gnome gains another term in office.
  • Rinse and repeat.

“We were stunned,” said lead researcher Dr Sophie Liszt. “For years, people assumed redistribution was complicated. Turns out, it’s just a really enthusiastic gnome with a quota.”

The study further revealed that the recipients of the £100 payments use the money primarily for life essentials such as booze, fags, spliffs, holidays, and subscriptions to streaming services they promise they’ll cancel “next month.”

Political analysts warn that if this trend continues, the Great Socialist Pyramid of Redistribution may soon rival the actual pyramids of Giza, except with more paperwork and fewer mummies.

When asked what citizens should do about this alarming discovery, Dr Sophie Liszt offered clear advice:

“Honestly? Maybe talk to an actual economist. Preferably, one without socialist government gnomes handing out stolen cash for votes.”

BEYOND SATIRE: Man Arrested For Free Speech During von der Leyen EU “Free Speech” Declaration

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BEYOND SATIRE: Man Arrested For Free Speech During von der Leyen EU “Free Speech” Declaration

During an announcement declaring how much the EU protects “free speech”, Ursula von der Leyen watched calmly as a man was arrested for protesting, and exercising his right to free speech in the EU.

This obviously goes down as a “beyond satire” moment.

Nothing else can really be said about this … apart from who is following who?

Is the UK following the EU or is it the other way around regarding “free speech” which is now practically banned in both Europe and the UK.

Collectivist Redistribution of Wealth Plan is Going Well Comrades

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Collectivist Redistribution of Wealth Plan is Going Well Comrades

Comrades, as you all know, the People’s Republic of Soviet Britain is currently in a state of supreme change. We are transitioning the country from socialism to full communism, and as devout Marxists and Trotskyists, this process can be slightly irksome for some, but we are here to manage the transition with ease. As the soviet collectivist redistribution of wealth plan is underway, we ask you all to not panic as we take your assets and wealth to redistribute it to people who are useless and unproductive.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir Lenin

soviet britain labour party comrade starmer announces increase in choco rationsYou, as the working people, have a duty to give up your hard-earned money and assets to those who refuse to work, and have little or no education or skills, or are Third Worlders who just came over from France in a rubber dinghy.

There is nothing to worry about. The punitive taxes that are being deployed by Commissar Reeves will ensure the collectivisation and redistribution of your financial resources and private property will become the public property of the state, free to be distributed by us and also a necessary function to furnish Big State employee pensions, salaries and expense accounts. We thank you for your hard work and generosity, as we relinquish you of your money.

russian soviet apartmentsAspiration, entrepreneurship, wealth, private property, share portfolios, capitalism, business — these are words that will soon be outlawed in the People’s Republic of Soviet Britain once we are fully communist.

Yes, there are some wealthy individuals/businesses/entrepreneurs/professionals who will flee the PRSB, or have fled already, like the vile capitalist swine that they are. Let them flee, we have no need for them or their ill-gotten gains.

Comrade Starmer and the Labour Party are here to ensure you will be silenced if there is any dissent to having your entire livelihood, wealth, assets and future absorbed by the Big State apparatus.

Thank you for your cooperation as we build a new communist society that the Labour Party can truly be proud of.

There will also be no more General Elections, and all other political parties will be abolished, along with the parasitical royal family.

Have a good day …

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