Mood Music before you read ahead

so i just found out that Putin has pulled the switch on the Internets in Russia and banned around 16 million IP addresses including Office365, PSN, XBox network, Windows Updates and worse of all this site. so now we gotta either say goodbye to our Ruskie comrades or find a way to help them win this war , warning it might get a bit cold. the reason for this ban is to get rid of a communication app called Telegram. cause its encrypted and the maker wouldn't hand the encryption keys. which makes him a terrorist. cause only terrorists use this app , which is why the KGB needs those decryption codes. when he wouldn't hand the codes over , they sued him and the court decided that the app must be blocked since they weren't cooperating or even trying to be nice.even though they asked nicely , he wouldn't hand the keys over. so now all our Ruskie friends are being brave and fighting for the motherland , by forsaking sites such as this one.

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Edit1: since some people are actually daft enough to think i am seriously blaming putin and not understand that i am trying to lighten up the thing by joking around then i will further explain it here. it was the russian FBI that sued Telegram and moved on to do this. it even says that in the sources i listed. also PLEASE read the sources. REALLY hate to explain the jokes , but i feel the need since this is a bit serious.

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cyka blyat
you no true comrade
i can squat more than you

Well, we all knew the Russians were heavily opposed to sharing things freely with your comrades.....

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Huh? VKontakte is one of the most reliable places to look for download links on… well, anything. :3

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VKontakte is also constantly harassed by Russian authorities. To the point its founder eventually left to create Telegram.
https://pctechmag.com/2015/12/meet-the-elusive-telegram-founder-pavel-durov/

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Oh, I know. It is now semi-officially under direct government control and monitoring. This is why it is funny that it is chock full of pirate links. Well, funny and convenient. =D

6 years ago
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including psn and xbox wut? I understand about windows update hehe

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Putin worked for the KGB from 1975 to 1991 and this fact certainly explains things like this, for a part.

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Putin & KGB are one till this day. Don't believe the illusion they play.

And yes, i can't access SG from Moscow right now (2 days already) without ip-changes.......

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A lot of people around here just think that things like this and passed cyber attacks are coming with the courtesy of the KGB\FSB guided by Putin. ^^

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including Office365, PSN, XBox network, Windows Updates and worse of all this site

Source? Couldn't find anything on Google about anything being blocked except Telegram, and your articles only list Viber as having some issues along with Guild Wars and World of Warships

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So they temporarily took down access to some sites seemingly by accident.

Bit different from Russia outright blocking those sites completely.

Edit: thanks for the source though

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so i just found out that Putin has pulled the switch on the Internets in Russia and banned around 16 million IP

not Putin, stop lying.
Roscomnadzor blocked
Thats funny how some ppl in this thread rush to spam useless comments about things they don't know ^^

6 years ago
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Please look past my ignorance, but doesn't Putin basically rule everything in Russia ? I don't know if someone can actually make a decision this big without Putin's approval.

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You are very funny and naive

6 years ago
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basically rule everything in Russia ?

ofc no. And i'm not russian, i just live&work in moscow last few years

6 years ago
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You are right, don't mind the mororns.

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Putin is a good guy, it's only his subordinates who are bad and incompetent and want to control all Russia! But Putin will save simple folk someday from evil vassals

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Lol. It's OK, you can say what you really want, we won't tell.

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That's what one of those bad guys would say!!!

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It's not actually funny, that's pretty much what the majority thinks here.

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Just going to say this... Putin is actually quite popular in Russia among the base population. This is mostly due to misinformation campaigns that Putin runs though. And people who try to expose Putin.... usually do not end up living for much longer.

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Putin has created a Roscomnadzor and passed laws. If not Putin, nothing was.

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Medvedev created Roscomnadzor in 2008 when he (Medvedev) was a president. Stop lying (╯ ° □ °) ╯

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More sanctions for Putin and his friends!

Medvedev does nothing without Putin. They are like a friends, but Putin is boss. Was created by Medvedev is formally. But the most important are laws, it was got later, in 2011 and later. Do you wish more? The judges assigns and removes only by Putin. Governors too.

Unfortunatelly I can't find an articles about judge's corruption in Russian, Google very changed for me in search output... Looks like there are more bad news than none-accessible SG. Only good news now for Russians in the Internet, hooray!

And finally! Putin is not president. He is usurper. Because the Constitution, 81 allows only 2 times in a row and says nothing abour 2 times with 2 time in a row. It's a reason why he has divorced and took out from Russia his family. Because Putin plays all in. So, your rulers interact with the criminal. In Russia there is no legal goverment today.

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Medvedev does nothing without Putin

yeah, sure. Its like old song

Кто вчера в моём подъезде Лифт зассал до потолка?
Мне, товарищи, поверьте - Это Путина рука!
Я поймал по пьяни «белку» -Это Путина проделки!
Куча под столом г….на Это Путина вина!
Засорился унитаз - Это Путина приказ

not interesting to continue discussion, its boring, sorry

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Yeah, before I laughed too when read these rhymes. In 2014 it was stopped to be funny.
Perfectly, you published 7-year old jokes. Then I tell the joke too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzGo4c6U8os
Вау, там 33 тыс. дизлайков, кремлеботы подвезли.

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stop spamming, thank you

not interesting to continue discussion, its boring, sorry

6 years ago
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You can't forbid to write me, it's free forum, opened for communication, as it must in free country, that is uncommon for you, vatnik. Don't anwser to me, just go to watch Kiselev, The First and Russia TV channels. :D

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But.. hadn't Putout created Medvyedyev-crap, who was (& honestly stays) nobody (zero with minus)? Exacly the same as RCNDZR-shit ain't nothing, really, just a bunch of slave beurocrats.. So who's lying here, troll?

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who are u? mad navalnyonok? not interesting to talk with you, cause i know everything u could say

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"Navalnyonok"? You are disclosed, vatnik (ватник). :D

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Oh, quite mutually, man, let me speak from my heart!!!

But nevertheless, unfortunately, I will have to counter your agenda here as long as I stay here myself. I mean your intention to mask the dangerous totalitarian essence of the russian power block, gathered by his majesty.

Btw, I am 40 this yr, so not a '~nyonok' anymore for sure. Im just a ripe 'westerner' in my worldview, rooted deep in my experience.

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Just you're the Putinist (Putinjerk) and you've the Putism of brain.

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Еще бы этим дурачкам объяснить, что Роскомнадзор никого не блокирует, а только вносит сайты/айпишники в реестр.

Пусть какахи кидают в своих инет-провайдеров рукожопых, кому бабки башляют ежемесячно.
Блокируют сайты-то в итоге как раз они.

У нас на районном форуме, к примеру, ругаются только на двух провов из пяти основных, кто у нас присутствует.

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погодь, тут у большинства русскоязычных комментаторов во всем виноват Пу ¯ \\ (ツ) / ¯

Давно тебя не читал, аж ностальгическая слеза навернулась 🍺
К слову, у меня билайн - отвалился только юплей, всё остальное работает без всяких проксей.

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Читайте, для вас, наверно, будет открытием: http://www.constitution.ru/10003000/10003000-6.htm

P.S. The Constitution of Russia, chapter 4, president of Russia.

6 years ago
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lol don't feed the troll !
so u aren't Russian but live in work in Moscow , at Russian troll factory

6 years ago
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Because of this mess a lot of people in Russia are trying to learn more about technologies like VPN and SOCKS5. So this "block" doesn't really stop people, it just makes them laugh at our government.

6 years ago
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i feel you. my country has been blocking any wrong think sites for years . Even worse , they block anything pornographic. cant get my fix without using a VPN.

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That's tough. At least we have vkontakte for that.
And yeah. Russia has been blocking a lot of sites too (e. g. Linkedin), but it wasn't as scandalous as this situation with Telegram.

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Well I live in Turkey so I can totally understand your problem. Even wikipedia got blocked because they didn't comply with our government's demands :(

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fyi Internet in Russia was built around VPN. It isn't new to Russians by all means. Most eastern European countries jumped to next level of Internet evolution while western countries still had that adsl and dial up or whatever. I was shocked to see that AOL thing with 10-15 Mbs tops in 2005 when I first visited USA. I was so used to Ethernet 100 Mbs back at home.

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There's no truth in discussion.
I still have all connections without vpn, proxy, etc. I updated my win7 and android without any troubles too.

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Its depending on your provider and how fast they can (or want) to realise instructions

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This kind of provider which do blocks fast.

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Who is provider? Without that it's empty lalking.

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Onlime of Rostelecom

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Moscow. I think they do not want to worry, because it's close too for goverment. Other regions will not stay tomorrow under windows.

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Rofl. Onlime is part of Rostelecom - it is main reason of fast execution of instructions.

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It's rofl for you, because you didn't live in province. The most of people consider Moscow by other country. I can contact with my friend and check my list of blocked website. He lives in not Moscow, but Rostelecom user too. Then we will laugh together.

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  1. Change your mood to normal from aggressive.
  2. You don't know who am I and anything about my life, so you have no any permission to talk about it.
  3. Learn laws of real life before judgement.
  4. Stop crying about your life if you want to talk.
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Oh, you has leave from a topic conversation and try to teach me. Fireman is needed here.
Do you know where are you right? You and we live by different lives. And everybody from province is agree with me, because I have wrote facts that living in Moscow people reject. Heh, like Russian Goverment in external politics.

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Nope, you didn't know where I am =p Your answer was incorrect.
Your opinion is just your opinion. Nobody let you speak for themselves.
You know too little to speak on scale of whole country.

Make steps if you want to change your life. Go to Moscow and get tonnes of gold if you really think so (let me know here if you really get it). You have internet and you have PC (no matter how old is it if it's allow you surfing Web), so you able to be a programmer and get work for a distance but you didn't do it and blame and discriminate other people. Nobody must help you, it's able only for yourself - it's meaning be adult.

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Have block too...

6 years ago
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Что и требовалось доказать.
И остается один вопрос, как быстро забанят за использование VPN на этом сайте?..

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О да. Хотя скорее интересно другое - что быстрее забанят - тут, или всю сеть в РФ)

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Это точно... Валить надо из такой страны...

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The Americans make it a bit more "sneaky".
They not ban IPs, they copy all datatravel .... and they get backdoors and infos from a lot of big players in the industry. And by the encryption/decryption they buy the stuff, that they can't bruteforce, from the developers.

Same shi* from all big coutrys that think they are "the leader(s) of the world".

They are ALL greedy and want only MORE MORE MORE ...

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lmao world of warships not working in russia, someone at FSB´s gonna receive a fat invoice :D

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Good luck to all our russian comrades.

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Well, I do not know.┐(´Θ`)┌
Putin purine. Is it delicious?
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It's a scary world. truly.

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That's news for me, and I'm Russian. I think that it's unlikely that this site would be banned, at least on purpose. It could happen by accident, someone could confuse this site with some other site and ban it, this happens all the time, but every time the ban is eventually lifted. Also, the blocks are easy to bypass, so I wouldn't expect any shortage of Russians here anytime soon.

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CS:GO is a detectable percentage in Russia's GDP, so I doubt they will ever sever the connections.

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Anyone have a link to the Star Wars Telegram parody video? Seen it on TV but can't find it on youtube etc.

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Look in VK on request "телеграм звездные войны" or "telegram star wars" in the video section

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Kudos for promoting encrypted messaging, we all should be using it to protect our freedom and privacy. The encryption in Telegram is not the best though, I recommend using Wire or Signal instead.

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I tried Signal, but IMO it's less user-friendly and convenient. And there are some people who are ready to give away their privacy in exchange for a nice UI, bots and free stickers.

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I must admit I'm a sucker for stickers, they're not even free. But Signal looks good too.

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Unfortunately, messaging apps success is directly related with early adoption. That's why almost everybody use WhatsApp and the reason why Facebook paid $19 billion for their user base.

I'd love to use Telegram or one of your suggested apps but my contacts are almost 100% WhatsApp exclusive users.

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in the Roskomnadzor there were always not quite adequate people. They have a mania, "need something to block / break / prohibit". We are waiting for Roskomnadzor to block itself)
the next step: no people - no terrorists.

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They are also banning it here in Iran, so telegram will go with hundreds of other banned media for us,
vpn is our true comrade!

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We are here (Mother Russia) mad of this actions, they ban everything and sent to jail everyone they want. Like in Stalin's time but without mass executions.

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sent to jail everyone they want

stop lying, kid
If u want to talk about human rights read about Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib first (╯ ° □ °) ╯ (┻━┻

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out of all the fucked up shit that still happens in the 21st century THATS your go-to example?

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why should i post "all the fucked up shit that still happens in the 21st century"? All i wanted to say - zittar isn't right. Thats not politic forum, and i'm tired of all this Putin/Trump news around

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Obviously because you just posted "if you wanna talk human rights read about XYZ first" implicating that the first issue isn't even worth discussing before covering the severity of XYZ.

Well, XYZ should be something pretty damn compelling, right?

So it's the human rights violations and psychological torture of American Blacksite prisons against any foreigners they just label an enemy combatant? Well yeah, that's definitely worth discussing, maybe even more so than... oh.... oh, the original issue? The increasing spike of political arrests sending off ordinary Russian citizens to ordinary Russian prisons with physical torture and human rights violations meant to suppress their very own populace.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

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sorry, not interested in such discussions on this forum, find someone else 💮

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I sent the post I was gonna write back in time for Lil Jon to rap out out intermittently throughout the song.

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So why'd you comment on the thread if you didn't want to discuss it? lol

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What else do they have to go on, the actual horrors their own country does in the name of protecting the State?

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In first place it's not about human rights in local places like this jails. I say about whole country where right now living two grade of people: goverment and other people, and if gov official think what you brak the law you have very low chance to solve this. Anyway, if you like everything what is goin on here I happy for you, but all this mess, unfortunately, occurs not only in Russia, but also in many other countries.
And I agree with you, let's stop this discussions.

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troll detected

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Jail? Please. You are lucky then, otherwise you may find yourself mysteriously thrown out of your own window by "suicide". :)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/maxim-borodin-russian-journalist-dies-mysterious-fall-investigative-yekaterinburg-a8307156.html

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I literally just finished watching a playthrough of Orwell Ignorance is strength, and Orwell a few days ago. And I'm concerned how relevant it is in today's world.

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i came here not for politics, you

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Damn. Oliver Stone must be conflicted right about now. He loves Putin so much...

6 years ago
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and his son is working at RT

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Looks like it's fixed. SG works just fine

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nope

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thx god, hope sykablyadistan will be totally banned from other world

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Офигеть так нагло переврали. Причём тут наш президент, вообще?

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да он уже 20+ лет ни при чем ; )

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Раз ни при чем, то нафиг он нужен? Чего он сидит за наши деньги живет?

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Так было раньше, теперь мы за ЕГО деньги живём

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'President' should be written from the capital letter 'P'.

I fear that you do not demonstrate enough respect, boy!

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Главное сайт работает ;)

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тупой Путинский бот чо ты на этом сайте забыл

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