Lmao Russia moment.
The paranoia is starting to ramp up, now with drones and missiles hitting inside Russia.
My guess is they will crack down hard on anyone trying to talk about the actual reality of what’s going on vs the party line.
They already do. This just removed more ways to hide.
Afraid of a civilian uprising. Also RIP classic warez “.ru” pages like old-game.
Bwah, plenty of them have alternative domains and hosting not in Russia.
Old-game has a fuck ton of ancient abandonware and not so abandoned but still ancient warez.
welp. they have to catch up with north korea eventually
Republicans would love the freedumb of living in Russia
I think this will lower hacker problems by half atleast lol
I doubt that. They’ll probably get a free pass, just like the north korean ones.
North Korean hackers don’t have a free pass. They straight work out of government offices
Ban them from Twitter while you’re at it
Nah the head honcho is a big fan of ol’ Puuts
What are you basing this on? At the start of the war he was challenging Putin for a MMA match and he lets Ukrainians use Starlink. Am I missing something?
Starlink has already cut access to front line Ukrainians before, forcing them to hold off on advancing due to lack of communication.
Starlink has benefitted immensely from the war, so it’s not a purely humanitarian desire to help Ukrainians. Free publicity and a guaranteed market share when only a handful of people ever even heard of Starlink is what they were after, IMO.
This still leaves my question unaswered. What has he done to indicate that he’s pro-Putin? I’m genuinely asking.
Piracy is allowed there anyway since the war the will not punish it, they even promote it with an emergent law
A classic move by authoritarian tyrants, suppress the spread of information, outlaw the free exchange of ideas.
This is why Tor and other privacy preserving technology is so important. People’s lives and wellbeing depend on them. We must not forget there are people in this world who are being harassed, tortured, and killed because they dare to question their government, dare to criticize their leaders, dare to think for themselves.
“While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.” -V for Vendetta
Actually this isn’t much different from extreme control over financial transactions in civilzed parts of the world. Rather it’s just natural extension of that control, which is scary
Expect this to come to the EU in a few years.
But you see, it is only bad if it is done by authoritarian regimes, but we are states of law and democracy, so there is nothing bad about it. And we are states of law because trust me bro
-European conservatives and “social democrats”
The UK conservatives aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. They have now just gone full on dictatorship energy.
Fortunately they are a bunch of incompetents who fight amongst themselves like a sack of cats. Otherwise they might actually represent threat.
Becareful that’s what everyone in the US thought, and then we got Trump and the Q brigade taking down our democracy.
Man, this makes me rethink my whole idea of online anonymity.
There’s a lot of reasons why requiring identity verification could be a good thing, but holy shit now I realize how quickly something like that could slip into authoritarianism.
I still think we need a identity verification service for things like online games and social media (to thwart ban evasion), but it has to be something decentralized.
It doesn’t have to be decentralized, it has to be anonymous. You want to have an online identity in the number of one per citizen, but not tied to the real identities.
There’s a way to do this by using regular digital ID and anonymizing it with zero-knowledge cryptography, but AFAIK noone tried this yet
In einem Authoritaeren Staat ist das die einzige Moeglichkeit Herr der dinge zu werden, sieht man ja auch in China.
“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”
— Princess Leia Organa
If you watch Andor, this is exactly what one of the lead characters Luthen is trying to accomplish. He’s afraid that if the Empire tightens too slowly that by the time people are upset with the changes it will be too late. So he wants the rebellion to very loudly and publicly attack the Empire to force them to tighten their grip faster which inspires more rebellion.
That’s why he’s so keen to get Saw Gurrera on board. He knows he’s a provocateur and and extremist that will absolutely get the Empire’s jimmies rustled. Not to mention the whole stealing a quadrant’s-worth of payroll.
🤷♂️ and you talking about Russian propaganda, while doing the same
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