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Russia Tests Cutting Off Access to Global Web, and VPNs Can't Get Around Itwww.pcmag.com/news/russia-tests-cutting-off-access-to-global-web-and-vpns-cant-get-around
13 sats \ 1 comment \ @ch0k1 11 Dec news
Russia has reportedly cut some regions of the country off from the rest of the world's internet for a day, effectively siloing them, according to reports from European and Russian news outlets reshared by the US nonprofit Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Western news outlets.
Russia's communications authority, Roskomnadzor, blocked residents in Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, which have majority-Muslim populations, ISW says. The three regions are in southwest Russia near its borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan. People in those areas couldn't access Google, YouTube, Telegram, WhatsApp, or other foreign websites or apps—even if they used VPNs, according to a local Russian news site.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cyphercosmo 11 Dec
I think this is inevitable given how criticized they are and how unilateral the whole narrative became (not that I disagree with it), I also think many brilliant Russian hackers will further the censorship resistance over there.
It's funny that usually most innovation comes exactly where it's forbidden, take China and the infamous GFW (the great firewall), the most recent and innovative VPN protocols were created by Chinese to circumvent their restrictions. So in a way the prohibition not only doesn't work but it helps the solutions become more resilient.
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