And then they get censored and pummelled into the ground by militarised police (here's a video of the National Guard practicing crowd control). Russia is ramping up the tools to control the...
And then they get censored and pummelled into the ground by militarised police (here's a video of the National Guard practicing crowd control).
Russia is ramping up the tools to control the population even more, passing laws that prevent dissent, allow more control over the internet (1kk+ IPv4 addresses are already blocked in Russia for various reasons). I see very little hope of this changing, especially since most of the population is indoctrinated by the government media and/or indifferent to the situation. Once the cycle is completed we're going back to stasi-enabled DDR world, this time in Russia.
.. But the same hostile environment gives birth to people waking up and saying "what the actual fuck?".
I see young people being very tech-savvy and very active on the web.
Resistance to Telegram being blocked has been big, which is itself a hilarious story of a botched technical implementation of filtering. Just shows the technical incompetence of the government agencies.
And to me, this is key. They are technically incompetent. All they have is brute force. But if people give up on resisting and defending their right to communicate privately, to me, the hope is lost.
And then they get censored and pummelled into the ground by militarised police (here's a video of the National Guard practicing crowd control).
Russia is ramping up the tools to control the population even more, passing laws that prevent dissent, allow more control over the internet (1kk+ IPv4 addresses are already blocked in Russia for various reasons). I see very little hope of this changing, especially since most of the population is indoctrinated by the government media and/or indifferent to the situation. Once the cycle is completed we're going back to stasi-enabled DDR world, this time in Russia.
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But the same hostile environment gives birth to people waking up and saying "what the actual fuck?".
I see young people being very tech-savvy and very active on the web.
Resistance to Telegram being blocked has been big, which is itself a hilarious story of a botched technical implementation of filtering. Just shows the technical incompetence of the government agencies.
And to me, this is key. They are technically incompetent. All they have is brute force. But if people give up on resisting and defending their right to communicate privately, to me, the hope is lost.