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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Censorship online can be carried out (to varying degrees) by actors including to
Censorship on corporate platforms is increasingly common, as platforms like Twitter and Facebook give in to public demand, market pressures, and pressures from government agencies. Government pressures can be covert requests to businesses, such as the White House [requesting the takedown](https://nytimes.com/2012/09/17/technology/on-the-web-a-fine-line-on-free-speech-across-globe.html) of a provocative YouTube video, or overt, such as the Chinese government requiring companies to adhere to a strict regime of censorship.
People concerned with the threat of censorship can use technologies like [Tor](../../advanced/tor-overview/index.md) to circumvent it, and support censorship-resistant communication platforms like [Matrix](../../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md#element), which doesn't have a centralized account authority that can close accounts arbitrarily.
People concerned with the threat of censorship can use technologies like [Tor](../../advanced/tor-overview/index.md) to circumvent it, and support censorship-resistant communication platforms like [Matrix](../../../tools/self-hosting/social-networks/index.md#element), which doesn't have a centralized account authority that can close accounts arbitrarily.
> [!TIP]
> While evading censorship itself can be easy, hiding the fact that you are doing it can be very problematic.