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According to this definition there is no censorship at all anywhere enforced by governments, not in North Korea, not in France, not in China... Please note that your definition is pure fantasy, if not insulting. Censorship is exactly suppression of speech, public communication, or other information subversive of the "common good", or against a given narrative, by law or other means of enforcement. The fact that censorship is enforced by law or by a government body does not make it less censorship. Furthermore, historically censorship was an exclusive matter of some central authority (the first well documented case is maybe the censorship rules to preserve the Athenian youth, infringed by Socrates, for which he was put to death, although the etymology comes from the Roman Office of Censor which had the duty to regulate on citizens' moral practices) and today censorship by governments is predominant. Even In modern times censorship through laws has been and is predominant and pervasive according to Britannica and many academic researches. Then you can discuss ad nauseam whether censorship by law is "right" or "wrong", whether France's censorship is "better" than China's censorship, but you can't change the definition of censorship, otherwise this discussion will become delirious. Kind regards

Excellent to see AirVPN give a detailed rationale for the inquiry. Bravo.

Hello! We have no plans to operate VPN servers in France (and in Italy) for the mandatory data retention framework still enforced in disdain of three different legally binding decisions of the CJEU (see below). France is in breach and Italy is too, but the Commission hesitates to open infraction procedures. Since the decisions pertain to the the preservation of a fundamental human right enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and in the European Convention on Human Rights, it does not seem inappropriate to consider that both France and Italy are committing one of the worst breaches a EU Member State can be guilty of. We might challenge with a casus belli the (il)legal framework in France, but we are already committed in other EU countries and we can't open potentially multiple legal battle fronts. The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-04/cp140054en.pdf The Members States may not impose a general obligation to retain data on providers of electronic communications services https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-12/cp160145en.pdf The Court of Justice confirms that EU law precludes national legislation requiring a provider of electronic communications services to carry out the general and indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data for the purpose of combating crime in general or of safeguarding national security https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2020-10/cp200123en.pdf Kind regards

Hello! Please make sure that no QoS / packet filtering tools, both on your router and system, interfere with traffic, and also test (with the connection mode that could provide you with the highest throughput) different servers in various locations around you (prefer servers with lowest round trip time). We don't see any bad packet / packet error in the log entries, so we tend to rule out MTU size problems. Some users reported in the past interesting performance boost (in Windows) after having fine tuned the TCP/IP stack with TCPOptimizer. If all else fails, you could give it a try, please see here: https://airvpn.org/topic/24126-tcp-optimizer-for-windows It looks like that with some TCP/IP stack optimization Windows can partially fill the gap with the other systems in the tun/tap interface "performance". It is not easy in Windows to match the throughput you get in the tun/tap interface when compared to other systems (you don't have fast-io, you don't have any native tun/tap support and some other problems due to bad architecture), but with TCP Optimizer and the latest tun/tap driver throughput can be improved (of course, it is assumed that your system has a powerful enough CPU). 120 Mbit/s is not bad anyway if you make a comparison with just 5-6 years ago, when beating 100 Mbit/s on the tun/tap interface with the old tun/tap driver in Windows was deemed as impossible. Kind regards