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

submitted 11 months ago by tal@kbin.social to c/europe@feddit.de

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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.

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[–] tal@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How is the world going to function with a 17m km2, 170m pop North Korea?

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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"

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Of course, it's just that the Russian regime is going to black out all western sites that are not aligned with its propaganda and no reality other than the one fed by the government will be accessible by the people. This is 1984 shit.

[–] Hazewind@artemis.camp 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also they (correctly) assume most of rhe current electorale doesn't yet know what a vpn is

[–] theoretiker@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

People who clearly haven't watched a single YouTube video

[–] agarorn@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean the cold war was a thing. Back then trade between systems was lower than today.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Sure, I'm talking about the total isolation of the population from other countries. Complete Internet control and censorship seems to lead in that direction.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Can you block things like TOR &I2P? Aren't they designed to be very hard to block?