• Rin@lemm.ee
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    Finally, I’ll have decent teammates in Countrstrike 2.

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    tbf the internet is going to consist mostly of 3 things in the future:

    • propaganda
    • scientific information
    • funny cat videos

    So I guess it’s not really a surprise that this is happening.

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    As a queer person in a place currently under russian control, I find a lot of the comments in favour of the censorship problematic. Being gay in public is illegal here, so a lot of our queer people find communities on the Internet. Being cut off from those would be terrible.

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    Russia tests cutting itself their citizens off from the rest of the internet

    The state would certainly continue to interfere with the rest.

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      In the long term is will fuck over their ability to hack stuff. You’re essentially ruining people’s ability to develop talent at tech. Even if u want to train them in it as military, it would be new to them.

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      If everybody but the state is blocked, then any connections from Russia would be pretty fucking obviously the state. Honestly, that’s the best thing that could happen, since it would make figuring out what they are doing easy as fuck. But I have no doubt they are smart enough to just send their teams to China or something like North Korea does.

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        Belarus is a puppet state of Russia. Route outbound traffic through there to fuck with Western elections, or run a VPN.

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    This sucks, I’ve met so many very cool and interesting Russian people. The internet is meant to connect people not box them in an echo chamber.

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      yeah, you met two cool russian people. Millions of older family members are being bombarded with propaganda from the rest of the russians that are less cool.

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        That’s the Russian government. The Russian government will not cease cyber attacks. This is only to stop citizens being able to find information.

        The amount Russians working in troll farms is nothing compared with the amount of good hearted decent Russian people and I’m saying this as a massive Ukraine war simp.

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        And disconnecting these people from the internet will help them how… exactly? Oh right you don’t care about them because they have different beliefs.

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          Oh right you don’t care about them because they have different beliefs.

          Who are the “they” here?

          EDIT : What are “their” beliefs?

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      I’m only familiar with the magnificent russian defenestration rate.

      It’s as close to 1 as a country can get.

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    To the people thinking this means Russia will no longer be able to interfere with other countries over the internet: you are probably mistaken. Disinformation teams will still be connected to the internet. All this will mean is Russians having even less exposure to the world outside of what little Vladolf wants them to see.

    It will probably make the European CS2 servers less toxic though.

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          Is this an EVE reference? It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve last played… ah the memories.

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      How are we going to get more treasures like “Blending in with the Russians”?

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      It’s not about what Russians can get from the outside, it’s more about what they can get to the outside.

      I think the idea is to have some capacity to temporarily preserve some connectivity, while mowing down protesters or something like that.

      They are doing such exercises for like 10 years btw.

      But when the war in Ukraine stops with some “mission accomplished” ceasefire, there will likely be more violent signs of popular disagreement with Putin. Because, well, people with combat experience will come back. Some of them to ask for money on the streets, some of them to abuse their relatives and neighbors, and some of them to do crime, and some of them probably to stir shit up.

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    Yeah - and I’m Dolly Parton. Everything that Russian press puts out is lies. There are only two reasons why Russia isn’t an abandoned strip mall: Oil and the Internet.

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    Wouldn’t it collapse their economy? Like how many Russians are digital sex workers selling content to the rest of the world? And doesn’t a shitton of money flow into Russia via ransomware