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Artyom Sheikin, a member of the Russian parliament's Federation Council, said on October 3 that the countryโ€™s Roskomnadzor media watchdog plans to block virtual private networks (VPNs) across the country as of March 1, 2024.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I suppose it was just a matter of time for this to happen, once the Russian government started cracking down on domestic Internet use in Russia.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How is the world going to function with a 17m km2, 170m pop North Korea?

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

China is also cracking down on VPNs and in many western countries there political ambitions to do so, because "good people have nothing to hide" and "it is okay if we do the surveillance because we arent autocracies like Russia so you have nothing to fear, wink wink"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also they (correctly) assume most of rhe current electorale doesn't yet know what a vpn is

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People who clearly haven't watched a single YouTube video

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