Hit 10,000 blocked articles on my VPN tracker and it felt surreal

I run a script that logs every news page I can't access through a blocked notice. After 6 months of casual checking, I hit 10,000 unique URLs from 15 different countries. I started this as a joke to see how bad censorship really was, but seeing that number in black and white made me pause. Most of the blocks were from China and Turkey, but India and Russia showed up way more than I expected. What's the highest count anyone else has seen in their own tracking or research?

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the_wesley5mo ago

Did you break them down by what kind of content got blocked, like political news vs sports vs something totally random?

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the_miles5mo ago

That is honestly chilling to see it laid out like that, really makes you FEEL the scale of it.

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