Coming back from my Slovenian-Austrian-Italian trip, we traveled through Switzerland, where I had contradictory feelings.

On the positive side

What am I speaking about? What's the contradictory? It's easy. Switzerland is fascinating country in the sense of nature and comfort. You can see extremely pretty places here: lakes, mountains, meadows - everything is so pretty and cared of. Clean fresh air, helpful people, everywhere is silence and perfection. Nice roads and not less nice cars (I've seen a lt of Tesla Model S, by the way).

On the other side

What's wrong with Switzerland? Okay, if you've read my steemit or golos blog earlier, than you should know, that I am IT guy with open mind, preferring freedom of any kind of limitations. Opensource software, free life, open mind and freedom to do whatever you want to (in the limits of morale and reason, of course). In the privacy and protection there can't be any compromises. If you don't get the idea, read the article from Amnesty International -
7 reasons why Ive got nothing to hide - is the wrong response to mass surveillance.

So, what I've found? In the Switzerland there is censorship. Yep, that's not a real news for many of us. But, when you see this fascinating mountains, when you listen to the stories about this safe Swiss banks, which in a way should be totally private and don't share or sell information on their clients... You want to believe in it. In this stories. But why you'll have to gather the information on clients from banks? Why just don't you make MITM attack and capture all the data in the middle with a transparent proxy? You can't often hear about censorship in Switzerland, but it's obvious: it's already here. Of course, not so strict as in Russia or China, but anyways.

Where are the proofs?

If you need them, here they are.

Filtration with proxy

Websites blocking

To summarize, I would also tell you about medium internet speed here: 20-30 mbps. In my native city Rostov-on-Don I had speed of 100 mbps nearly 10 years ago (okay, now it's a bit slower, but not much, and I still got 100 mbps on torrents). Shy, Switzerland!

Another fun thing, they don't accept cards everywhere. In fact, they don't accept it really often! For me, it's unbelievable. The terminals are quite cheap. Shy, Switzerland! And you have so high prices... You DO have mney for great roads, but you don't have money for terminals and great internet? You could make here 1gbps without any problems...

So: if you want to rest in fascinatig places - Switzerland - is nice. But if you look close to it, there are a lot of questions that are leaved for me unanswered.

Take care,
Yours, traveling-a-lot Den Ivanov aka @sxiii