To the people thinking this means Russia will no longer be able to interfere with other countries over the internet: you are probably mistaken. Disinformation teams will still be connected to the internet. All this will mean is Russians having even less exposure to the world outside of what little Vladolf wants them to see.
It will probably make the European CS2 servers less toxic though.
How are we going to get more treasures like “Blending in with the Russians”?
It’s not about what Russians can get from the outside, it’s more about what they can get to the outside.
I think the idea is to have some capacity to temporarily preserve some connectivity, while mowing down protesters or something like that.
They are doing such exercises for like 10 years btw.
But when the war in Ukraine stops with some “mission accomplished” ceasefire, there will likely be more violent signs of popular disagreement with Putin. Because, well, people with combat experience will come back. Some of them to ask for money on the streets, some of them to abuse their relatives and neighbors, and some of them to do crime, and some of them probably to stir shit up.
Wouldn’t it collapse their economy? Like how many Russians are digital sex workers selling content to the rest of the world? And doesn’t a shitton of money flow into Russia via ransomware
Shh. Just smile and wave.
Like how many Russians are digital sex workers selling content to the rest of the world?
I think those will move somewhere with Internet connectivity.
As a queer person in a place currently under russian control, I find a lot of the comments in favour of the censorship problematic. Being gay in public is illegal here, so a lot of our queer people find communities on the Internet. Being cut off from those would be terrible.
Sorry you’ve been saddled with that, friend. I hope things get better in Russia (or Ukraine, Transnistria, or Georgia, think that covers all the places they occupy) in your lifetime
I hope I’ll escape before it collapses, otherwise life will be unnecessarily difficult for a decade or two
Plus, there are things in Russia that I want. Like Starsector
I got your 6.
Oh I bet you do… 😉
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Fuck off
Russian Federation? M-more, more like, like… Russian De-Federation, am I right?
I’m only familiar with the magnificent russian defenestration rate.
It’s as close to 1 as a country can get.
- Again.
They do this every few years.
It is like those “drills” with fighter jets flying close by. Everyone does it occasionally to test reaction time. And every time it is a breaking world news.
Yeah I’m sure going full north Korea and cutting of everyone below the government is gonna work well
Red Star OS when?
Finally, I’ll have decent teammates in Countrstrike 2.
It will be a dark day for piracy…
Luckily, libgen and sci hub are not based there
The worst (to me, anyway) part is that a LOT of pirate stuff will disappear if the russian internet gets gated
Usenet still exists.
Gotta pay for access to any worthwhile server
True, but it’s super cheap. I pay less for a year of Usenet and indexer than I’d pay for 2 months of basic cable or just about any streaming service.
Any good starting point or worthwhile server that can be recommended? I don’t mind paying, I’m paying more for the arr than for any of the subscriptions, I just dont want to have to deal with the media company bullshit anymore
I have been using Frugal and nzbGeek for years and have no complaints.
Meh, loads of other places
I hope rutracker will stay available :P
DO IT
Their hacking teams will still be connected.
I meam, the rest of the world could cut them off.
would make it a lot easier to identify malicious traffic - all of it :)
No, let’s not encourage this even as a joke.
All cutting Russia off from the rest of the internet will do is making them more radicalized and give even less opportunities for good ideas and good people to fight back.
That’s why China does it. That’s why Iran did it.
That’s where all the best illegal movies come from!
I see a lot of comparisons to China’s great wall but i’d wager North Korea is way ahead on that…
BTW, I’ve seen an article that China is considering the relaxation of their great firewall.
Something about Chinese citizens being ideologically solid enough. I guess that’s one way to say that now with Palestine and everything else nobody really thinks that the Western world and the free world are synonyms.
ideologically solid enough
They have been manipulated into being some of the biggest racists on the planet.
Riiiight…we can trust our people to choose Maoism over hot singles in their area.
I don’t think Chinese propaganda has anything against hot singles in their area. They have a shrinking population problem now.
Yeah - and I’m Dolly Parton. Everything that Russian press puts out is lies. There are only two reasons why Russia isn’t an abandoned strip mall: Oil and the Internet.
