Russian authorities prepare to block Discord.
Russian authorities prepare to block Discord.
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, has issued five decisions on violations of Russian legislation concerning the messenger app Discord.
People! Pay attention! THIS is why censorship is so bad. THIS is the slippery slope it leads to. Censoring information is just the first step in controlling the public, and keeping them uninformed/misinformed.
It's the same as burning books. It's the same as shutting down websites. It's the same as only allowing state only channels to report news.
Back in the 80s the USA knew about chernobyl about a week after it happened. Russian citizens didn't know for 3-4 weeks later.
China knew about Covid in August of 2019. They tried to supress the news until it finally leaked in November 2019.
Now russia wants to supress information of how badly the "special military operation" is going......almost 3 years into a 3 day operation.
So make sure you take note when people around you try to supress information, and ask WHY they want to do that. Looking at you, Florida.....
Well, russia can do it easily because it's an authoritarian regime which means they can do whatever the fuck they want with their country(putin and his friends) and people can't day anything because they will be sent to today's version of russian gulag
And my point is, it's starting to creep in here, in America, because for some reason nearly half the country find it more important to "win", than to find legitimate solutions, and form policy that works for everyone. They'd rather screw themselves, and bow to facism, than help "the other side" as a biproduct of helping themselves.
Russians: We had a nuclear incident
Americans: it must be really bad then
Russians: We never said it's bad
Americans: Listen, if it was not bad, you wouldn't even admit you had a nuclear incident.
Oooh no!!!
Anyway, anyone have any good gluten free cake recipes?
Looks like Matrix is about to see an influx of users. And they can't shut down Matrix.
I highly doubt regular users will exchange Discord for Matrix. Don't get me wrong, Matrix is great and all, has some great features, but given its open decentralized way it is and probably always will be mostly for tech savvy people. Now given how half of the Discord (the part I know) is memes and gifs spam, it's not really easily reproducible with Matrix. At least last time I checked Element still didn't have gif picker...
Sounds like a good thing overall.
Many Russians already use matrix, they may not use it seriously but they use it.
I mean in the past few days I've seen like 20 Russian trolls, spamming scat porn, racial slurs, racist memes, extremist memes, you name it.
So yeah I would say that matrix is already decently popular among Russians. Maybe not for legitimate use but it's still definitely popular among them.
I doubt it's anyhow important for them, it's just Discord is one anothee channel to block that isn't used by his core support base, and the goal is to block everything or\and draw nice monthly reports about that process.
This is great news. It should help justify banning TikTok! We all work together to save the children now! \s