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
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
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.
I was gonna say you forgot porno but then
scientific information
funny “cat” videos
cat as in pussy
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You mean the clearnet and you put advertising under propaganda, which is fair, but advertising I feel is a distinctly heinous thing we could hate all on its own!
Tell me you use an ad blocker without telling me.
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The worst (to me, anyway) part is that a LOT of pirate stuff will disappear if the russian internet gets gated
Usenet still exists.
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.
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.
Meh, loads of other places
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.
yeah, you met two cool russian people. Millions of older family members are being bombarded with propaganda from the rest of the russians that are less cool.
And disconnecting these people from the internet will help them how… exactly? Oh right you don’t care about them because they have different beliefs.
Oh right you don’t care about them because they have different beliefs.
Who are the “they” here?
EDIT : What are “their” beliefs?
That’s the Russian government. The Russian government will not cease cyber attacks. This is only to stop citizens being able to find information.
The amount Russians working in troll farms is nothing compared with the amount of good hearted decent Russian people and I’m saying this as a massive Ukraine war simp.
That’s where all the best illegal movies come from!
Noooo! My sports streams!
This is a sad day
So turning it into an intranet.
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.
Lol peace suckas
Xis puppet is learning another trick from its master
Big lan party But I’m sure there will be outside content somehow
Someone will be smuggling microfiche behind the iron curtain…wait wrong century.
