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I hate everything that's being done. A large part of my family lives there, and just getting them on a call is now not an easy task.
(I mean, I hate Putin and his government for many other things too. Restricted Internet perhaps is the least of their crimes, but this least is getting longer and longer and longer...)
Obtain a Kasachstan or Byelorus sim card, install it on a burner phone with the Max messenger for minimal overall pain.
I won't use Max under any circumstances and won't recommend it to my family. Testing out SimpleX for now.
I have no interest nor trust in Max, but as long as the Cheburnet Wars continue it will be the easiest way for nontechnical people to make voice calls.
The whole torrent industry bouta take a huge hit
Still so many Russians in cs2 and dota. Explain??
Alternate payment methods. As far as I know, only PayPal and credit cards don't work. Russians have their own methods, even by just buying gift cards from a marketplace (edit:removed url)
I feel a bit bad for the normal people still stuck in that shithole.
Russia or the USA?
Something something same photo.
The irony of losing your job as a paid troll to AI.
Maybe I can try playing CS2 again.
In another news 90% of the world online scammers and hackers suddenly have gone...
Counter-Strike 2 suddenly playable.
90% of the world online scammers and hackers
It's crazy how these major tent poles of the modern internet - Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft - are all centered in the United States, but never bare any responsibility for the malicious traffic on their networks.
The craziest part to me is that instead of dealing with bot traffic so they can tell advertisers actual people are seeing their ads, they're just adding age verification.
Age verification that will, itself, be quickly subverted and spoofed. And which they won't bother to manage internally, because that's hard
"AI warfare" or, "AI is stealing all the jobs of our army of international scammers, that we allow to operate freely as long as they don't target Russians!"
Insulating oneself from American internet platforms may be a lofty goal, unfortunately the Russian version of the internet isn't much better. China did a much better job and now they don't have vaccine deniers, they didn't suffer from people refusing to wear facemasks, and they aren't about to have a far right coup
Imagine thinking the Great Firewall of China is a good thing
It's great for the people that matter.
Imagine living in borderline fascist countries and believing that the fascist-free Chinese model is worse by any metric.
I assure you, the Chinese internet is not a picknick, it’s got plenty of its own wackos and weird shit going on. But the party is very quick to shut down stuff that it sees as a potential image problem, but they won’t do shit about a problem until it becomes a significant embracement.
So they actually tackle problematic issues instead of indiscriminate censorship, and that sounds like a worse alternative to you than "absolute freedom of speech in capitalist/Nazi-owned social networks"?
They take on issues that are problematic for the party’s image, if they’re not problematic for the party they let it thrive. Outside that narrow window, china’s internet is even more of a Skinner box, addiction suck, dystopian corporate hellscape than the English speaking internet.
Listen comrade, you know China isn't some dreamland full of happy wealthy people, it's got huge numbers of poor, starving people, young people stricken with cancer, disease, bulldozers, you name it. They're ran by an uncaring party, who are turning the screws on the population who are rebelling and dying.
I know you know. And now you know I know you know. Your little pink act is tired.
tbf if america had 3x the people it'd far worse than china.
They're ran by an uncaring party, who are turning the screws on the population who are rebelling and dying
Chinese support for their government is astronomically higher than in any western country
You have been lied to.
Yea that tends to happen in places where you get disappeared if you actually share any discontent.
Their grip is so embedded that they intimidate Chinese dispora in other countries, and on that basis, what would have to gain by being honest about what dislike about the government and have only hardship if you confront them.
Would refusing to wear face masks decrease their social score?
They literally steel reinforced the doors to prevent people leaving their apartments in China, I think they took it seriously enough.
