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Russia Plans To Block VPN In March 2024, Member Of Federation Council Says

www.rferl.org Russia Plans To Block VPN In March 2024, Member Of Federation Council Says

Artyom Sheikin, a member of the Russian parliament's Federation Council, said on October 3 that the country’s Roskomnadzor media watchdog plans to block virtual private networks (VPNs) across the country as of March 1, 2024.

Україна Ukraine @kbin.social tal @kbin.social 1 yr. ago

www.rferl.org /a/russia-blocks-vpns-arch-2024-sheikin-meta/32621394.html

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I suppose it was just a matter of time for this to happen, once the Russian government started cracking down on domestic Internet use in Russia.
- How is the world going to function with a 17m km2, 170m pop North Korea?
  
  China is also cracking down on VPNs and in many western countries there political ambitions to do so, because "good people have nothing to hide" and "it is okay if we do the surveillance because we arent autocracies like Russia so you have nothing to fear, wink wink"
  
  I mean the cold war was a thing. Back then trade between systems was lower than today.
Can you block things like TOR &I2P? Aren't they designed to be very hard to block?

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