> The mobile apps are paid. Development is fully funded by PDG Global Limited; revenue from app sales, together with donations, contributes towards development costs. The core remains open source under AGPLv3.
Not at all. China, Russia, and Iran are the three biggest markets for VPNs.
In China about 150 million people use a VPN, in Russia about 60 million, about half the population
Like, it's a FBI honeypot or it's a CIA op to help dissidents?
Most VPN companies are incredibly sus, outside of Mulvad they're mostly all incredibly suspicious imo. Western intelligence is desperate to enable the use of such tools in enemy territory so they can bombard enemy culture with American culture and make the populations eager to adopt American/Western customs and as a byproduct install leaders who are pro western ideology and less likely to be adversarial. VPNs when marketed to these countries should be seen as tools of propaganda dissemination l, in my opinion.
The EFF will talk a big game about how this tech is about freedom of information, human rights and democracy.but really they're founded by a bunch of US Naval Research guys who are basically tasked with building the "cyber" infrastructure to ideologically invade adversial countries so they can be psychologically colonized. They then launder that mission with discussions about free speech and democracy.
The original US Army's Psychological Operations Unit, was called the "Ghost Army" they used a patch with a ghost hovering over an implied target shooting electricity from its hands.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Ghostarm...
The ghost on the patch is symbolic for beaming in signals into enemy territory to brainwash, intimidate and control an enemy population.
The reason that China, Russia and Iran have nation state firewalls is because the US is so good at this, and the US wants to control any country who has any potential of competing with it. Its not because they hate freedom or something, its because anyone the US has deemed an economic or ideological opponent will be targeted in this way. We will beam signals through whatever means/protocol into a country to gain a psychological foothold in their culture, we will then convince them to kill their leaders and install US puppets.
I routinely say that Starlink should make its logo the Ghost Army patch, because thats what it was built for. While it functions as a cool business, and does provide value, it was created as the ultimate propaganda dissemination tool
(eventually atleast, it will be very hard to mitigate against if they can pull off some sort of cellular implementation of Starlink, which they're actively working towards).
TOR and VPN companies attempted to serve this purpose, when this paradigm failed to be a general purpose tool for bypassing nation state firewalls they had to find another way so they helped Elon bootstrap a literal satallite constellation for this purpose. Its literally the Ghost in the sky waving its hand over a population with few ways to prevent its use.
The VPN industry in China, Russia and Iran are weapons for this agenda.
> The ghost on the patch is symbolic for beaming in signals into enemy territory to brainwash, intimidate and control an enemy population.
Any source that support your claims?
From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Army):
> The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1,100-man unit was created to deceive the Axis forces and mislead them as to the size and location of Allied forces, while giving the actual units elsewhere time to maneuver.
> ... During their tenure, the Ghost Army carried out more than 20 deception campaigns, putting on a "traveling road show" using inflatable tanks, sound trucks, fake radio transmissions, scripts and pretense.
Also the description on the patch:
> Ghost Army insignia, not used by the actual unit, but associated with the unit after the war