The US Government Needs Big Tech Assistance To Present VPNs For Users In Russia And Iran

The White House held a meeting with big tech (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA The US government meets with several major companies in technology, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Cloudflare at the White House. This meeting was held to discuss internet censorship.

Currently, internet users in Russia and Iran are having difficulty accessing information due to sensors implemented by their government. As a result, the demand and use of the US-backed Virtual Private Network (VPN) has increased every month.

Seeing this situation, the US government wants to offer more bandwidth servers to the Open Technology Fund (OTF) through the help of the four major companies. This server bandwidth will receive subsidies from the government to meet the surge in VPN demand.

"We have seen a VPN request boom, which is largely driven by users in Russia and Iran," said OTF President Laura Cunningham, quoted by Reuters. The leader of the non-profit organization said the increase had occurred over the past few years.

Cunningham added that OTF seeks to support millions of VPN users on a regular basis. "We support about nine million VPN users every month, and now that number has increased more than fourfold."

Currently, US-backed VPN users reach 46 million people every month. Although users from Russia and Iran dominate, some users also come from other countries that are facing problems with limited information, one of which is Myanmar.

To support and provide the best VPN to users that continues to grow, OTF requires support from big tech companies like Amazon, Google, and others. It is not yet known whether the four major companies agreed to help the government.