Russia tests cutting itself off from the rest of the internet

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.

Russia tests cutting ~~itself~~ their citizens off from the rest of the internet

The state would certainly continue to interfere with the rest.

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

Country Self-Defederation

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.

Russian Federation? M-more, more like, like... Russian De-Federation, am I right?

cs.rin.ru and rutracker ;_;

Also many people from the cracking scene y general.

Again.

They do this every few years.

Fuck. Please don't take down Sci hub... I know there are mirrors elsewhere, should I be worried?

I'm not even going to make the usual joke, by saying sarcastically that I don't use it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's the biggest contributor to scientific progress in the last decade and I'm tired of pretending it's not

Yeah I'm sure going full north Korea and cutting of everyone below the government is gonna work well

Lmao is russia gonna be even worse than China? At least China still somewhat have access to foreign websites (emphasis on the "somewhat").

Edit: Also, aren't telephones still working? Just call a friend/relative outside of the country to obtain information, or ask someone who has a friend/relative out of the country and ask for information on your behalf.

Have they banned mail yet? Try using mail lol.

They're gonna need to do a nationwide lockdown to stop all information.

(Funny thing is, no matter how hard China tries, I (I'm in the US) can still call relative in China and tell them all the info that the CCP has hidden from them)

Finally, I'll have decent teammates in Countrstrike 2.

This sucks, I've met so many very cool and interesting Russian people. The internet is meant to connect people not box them in an echo chamber.

DO IT

It will be a dark day for piracy...

Luckily, libgen and sci hub are not based there

I hope rutracker will stay available :P

tbf the internet is going to consist mostly of 3 things in the future:

propaganda
scientific information
funny cat videos

So I guess it's not really a surprise that this is happening.

The worst (to me, anyway) part is that a LOT of pirate stuff will disappear if the russian internet gets gated

So turning it into an intranet.

Lol peace suckas

That’s where all the best illegal movies come from!

They're really into cable cutting these days. Maybe we should help.

Good

Edit: actually not good. Disinformation agencies will still have access, so hexbear and .lm will remain. Only citizens will be punished and will be cut from non-prpaganda sources.

Gladly, no more fucking Putin Bots.

Noooo! My sports streams!

I see a lot of comparisons to China's great wall but i'd wager North Korea is way ahead on that...

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.

Xis puppet is learning another trick from its master

Good fucking riddance. (No offense cool innocent Russian people.)

Big lan party But I'm sure there will be outside content somehow

Isn’t this more a test of their own internal stability? They’ve made it clear they would disrupt the rest of the worlds communications and if their own systems are self sustaining they would take no hits from their own antics