Posted on 10/05/2023 5:55:40 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
MOSCOW, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Russia's communications watchdog plans to block Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from March 1 next year, a Russian senator for the ruling United Russia party said on Tuesday.
Demand for VPN services soared after Russia restricted access to some Western social media after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Senator Artem Sheikin said an order from the Roskomnadzor watchdog would come into force on March 1 that would block VPNs. "From March 1, 2024, an order will come into force to block VPN services providing access to sites banned in Russia," Sheikin was quoted as saying by state news agency RIA.
Phone calls to the number listed by Roskomnadzor as its press service were answered by a voice message with the Bobby McFerrin song "Don't Worry Be Happy". An emailed request for comment got no immediate reply.
Sheikin said that it was particularly important to block access to Meta Platforms (META.O), which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. "I would like to note that it is especially important to restrict citizens' access to the products of Meta which is recognised as an extremist organization," Sheikin added.
He stressed that this order also applies to those VPN services that give access, in particular, to Instagram, which is banned in Russia.
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I don’t know that this should cause a stir here. Our government is surely envious.
Europe and Canada will do the same soon enough, and the US may, depending on the 2024 election results. Can’t let the masses of truthful information about the Ukraine War, don’t cha know.
don’t know that this should cause a stir here. Our government is surely envious.
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Future headline
The EU will try to block VPN services starting in 2025 to “protect the children”
How about focusing on all of the internet blocking in this country. There’s enough to complain about here in the U.S.
Probably sooner to stop people from sharing news with one another before the election.
Coming soon to a “democracy” near you.
Looks like tens of millions of Americans are going to have to pay for their old TV shows.
A story about Russia blocking VPN, so what are the posts on this thread mocking and criticizing, the countries that are not Russia.
Good example, this thread should be about Russia blocking VPN, just as those threads are on those topics.
I use snowflake on my browser, so people from countries that are being censored can still get on the Internet.
"Ukrainian soldiers are being DRUGGED and forced to fight" Ex-CIA Larry Johnson | Redacted News
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: "If you go social media, you see row after row after row of Ukrainian flags fluttering after freshly dug graves. Thousands of them. You don't see that in Russia. So, right there, it tells you right away that the causalities are in Ukraine.
The average age of the soldiers fighting on the frontlines for Ukraine is over 40 years old. That means you might have one or two that are 17 and 18 but you have a lot more that are over the age of 40. That speaks to a manpower loss.
"To put the losses in context, right now it is estimated that Ukraine as lost over 500,000 men killed in action. During WW II, the British, the United Kingdom, it's entire killed in action in both Europe, Africa and the pacific, was 345,000. That was after six years of war."
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