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Are providers winding down their operations in Russia?
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China is a lot worse than Russia, but only because they have more experience with mass-scale censorship. Russia can still access Tor via Snowflake some of the time, but China has effectively closed that off completely.
The only difference is that China censors fewer things. But their censorship is far harder to bypass.
Actually, can we not let the Russia vs Ukraine containment thread leak?
Just because acknowledging the war is necessary for discussing why providers might be avoiding Russia doesn't mean we need to turn this into a debate about authoritarianism, Putin, and Russian vs Western morals shit-flinging contest...
VPN, YouTube, Telegram, Google, and others are not prohibited in Russia. A restriction is not a prohibition. Use does not entail any penalties. Your sources often distort the real situation.
If you are not satisfied with something, go to the website of the State Duma and write a complaint where you will state your views in detail. The only thing that can be advised in your situation.
I'm speaking of Belarus, not Russia.
Those complaints end up in /dev/null either way.
Are you talking about so called "journalists" of Hamas? Because I have a full archive.
One hand they are holding a Sony camera, other hand an AK-47. Plenty. And most of
them were cheering the Oct 7 attack. So yeah, if you ever lived in the middle east, you
would known who is who. I respect your tech skills, but your mid-east knowledgle is 0.
In Belarus VPN is NOT illegal. All working.
To one particular country, every human being in their neighboring country is Hamas.
I mean the ones whose murders multiple well-respected international journalist societies have been decrying.
Emmm... If the EU had imposed censorship 20 years ago, it might have developed its own IT industry instead of being an US tech colony today.
What Russians? I don’t know who in Russia likes censorship. Generally, no one is against blocking phishing, extremist, pedophilic, and terrorist websites, but blocking useful services such as YouTube, Instagram, X.com, as well as some messengers, etc., is a bad idea. I hope that when the war is over, access to most services will be restored. Of course, this also depends on the stance of the services themselves. Ignoring requests from law enforcement agencies to block information banned in the Russian Federation is a disgrace for Western services. You cannot use double standards.
Hosting production env in ru or Ukraine is not wise as both countries are in active war. If you consider such options - then after catastrohpy hits the data center - don’t cry.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/177624/the-russia-vs-ukraine-thread-lets-not-derail-other-threads#latest this is probably a right place to discuss what you are discussing.
I wouldn't be so sure. I recently had to help someone from Bulgaria who works in China setup a V2Ray.
I think the Russian guy is correct, the majority of the blocks might be due to other causes, rather than the Russians having a better firewall than the Chinese. The Chinese didn't start the hot phase of the expansion yet so it might look like Russia is censoring better and smarter when it actually has other problems due to the war.