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While it’s great that Russia is getting hit with digital sanctions, it does highlight how much we depend on majoritarily American GMAX (Google, Meta, Amazon and X) for communications and information.
The internet shouldn’t be like this. That’s how you end up with limited access to important services and price gouging where net neutrality laws don’t exist.
I feel really fortunate to have the fediverse.
This is just Russian internet infrastructure collapsing. Nothing to do with sanctions. Although digital sanctions have hit Russia, for the most part using a VPN works fine.
This is just Russian internet infrastructure collapsing. Nothing to do with sanctions.
You don’t think those might be related???
Huawei still sells networking hardware to Russia. So that is not a problem.
Also T-Bank is Russian, as is Telegram at least somewhat. TikTok is Chinese and they do not sanction Russia.
I would guess the manpower drain of their costly Ukraine war has a larger effect than the sanctions. They are simply running out of people to work on stuff, throughout the country.
It’s more than that. Russia is in terminal decline. The last batch of properly educated engineers graduated from Soviet schools in the late 80s. They are now retiring which leaves a huge skills gap. In the past Russia used Western expertise todo the work of building and maintaining oil fields etc. but that is cut off now. Chinese engineers can fill some of the gaps but they don’t have expertise in oil fields and certain types of engineering to replace Western expertise.
The war in Ukraine has only accelerated this process.
Yeah it sounds to me more like important services are being blocked.
MTC is the largest Russian mobile carrier. T-Bank is a Russian bank. Telegram is mostly Russian as well, certainly not terribly Western. TikTok is Chinese. If this is blocking, then it is from the Russian side and not due to sanctions.
Good point.
Feels like an important cable was cut? Wanna cry a bit?
Oof, when you wake up and all that’s left to do is go outside and touch grass but it’s winter in Russia
So, you turn to vodka. Again.
Ukraine blew up the distilleries though.
The reasons for today’s large-scale failure in the RuNet are definitely not connected with any exercises on the “sovereignization” of the Internet.
Yeah… that statement makes me a little suspicious.
Fuck russia
Lol maybe shouldn’t invade sovereign nations, gottem
Yessss…fuck the orks
No plans to conduct them, but the country did just experience one of the largest scale drone attacks of the war so far.
That’s the fun part about having so much of your power in a country centralized in one person, is that big decisions can happen very fast. For better or worse.
Nice, time to play dota
That is actually on way Ukraine can wage the war: cut the cables (like Russia did in the Baltic sea).
They probably can but what would the benefits be?
Let’s see how long you can deal without internet.
You mean civil unrest?
Putin loves his centralized media. Lol
For the platforms, I’m guessing everyone in Russia is familiar with VPNs?
the Vatniks Primitive Network?
