Please block as many services as possible in Russia, it will motivate our people to change government (by force, maybe) faster.
LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
21–30 of 200 posts
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#22From Russia, can confirm. Finally roscomnadzor is preventing spam!
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the end of the day, creating many of these services is trivial. Creating a LinkedIn clone is trivial, and one will pop up in Russia giving some Russian owners profit and creating jobs for Russians. So how it's bad for the Russian economy, or the economy of any country to do this, is beyond me. On the other hand, dictatorships and capitalist democracies love to gather as much information as they can on their citize…
It's not about the economy, it's about control. Give them control or get out. Eventually the only companies left are those that will acquiesce to Russian demands.
From how I understanding "Russian state philosophy" (if there's such a thing) I'd even intuitively assume they're not necessarily primarily interested in gathering everything-about-everyone but in ensuring no other party (especially private western/multinational corps) gain potentially such an information advantage over them. We've arrived in an age when non-sovereign entities can gain leverage over sovereign entities and thus become "geopolitical players", to be "reckoned with".
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#24Honestly, if LinkedIn disappeared today worldwide, I wouldn't miss it one second. It's really more of a chore than anything else. When you're looking for a job, or looking to recruit, it's helpful, but they haven't made the case of general everyday use, and I doubt they ever will.
Joins groups on it. I am in a few web dev. groups and we have discussions, people share links, ask questions, etc.
Dev groups on linkedin? A abandoned phpbb forum from 2010 is a better option!
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#25Honestly, if LinkedIn disappeared today worldwide, I wouldn't miss it one second. It's really more of a chore than anything else. When you're looking for a job, or looking to recruit, it's helpful, but they haven't made the case of general everyday use, and I doubt they ever will.
Joins groups on it. I am in a few web dev. groups and we have discussions, people share links, ask questions, etc.
Last time I joined one of those it was filled with spam and terrible articles. May have just been the particular group I suppose.
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#26Honestly, if LinkedIn disappeared today worldwide, I wouldn't miss it one second. It's really more of a chore than anything else. When you're looking for a job, or looking to recruit, it's helpful, but they haven't made the case of general everyday use, and I doubt they ever will.
Ditto, it seems most to mostly be stories of:
"10 years ago I was a alcoholic leprechaun but today I finally got that job working as a chimney sweep"
"Here's a picture of me with a homeless person I spoke to on my way to work today. It turns out they are people too."
"Don't you just love our military personnel/democracy/babies? One like to show you love these things. One share to show you don't hate them."
"Here's a pointless meme about mindfullness"
"Hey look at my dog wearing a santa costume" (actually that would be kind of cool)
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#27I didn't know about this crazy new regulatory requirements until now. Quoting from an article [1] describing the new law: > “When collecting personal data, including through information and the internet telecommunications network, the operator is required to provide a record that the systematization, accumulation, storage, updating and retrieval of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation, is held on datab…
I wonder if there is any requirement that the data be readable? I mean, you could store it in encrypted format, but keep the keys outside of Russia...
it would be foolish to not encrypt the data at rest and probably just as silly to keep the keys in the same location.
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#28Honestly, if LinkedIn disappeared today worldwide, I wouldn't miss it one second. It's really more of a chore than anything else. When you're looking for a job, or looking to recruit, it's helpful, but they haven't made the case of general everyday use, and I doubt they ever will.
Ditto, it seems most to mostly be stories of: "10 years ago I was a alcoholic leprechaun but today I finally got that job working as a chimney sweep" "Here's a picture of me with a homeless person I spoke to on my way to work today. It turns out they are people too." "Don't you just love our military personnel/democracy/babies? One like to show you love these things. One share to show you don't hate them." "Here's a…
It's become the social networking equivalent of Upworthy.
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#29Honestly, if LinkedIn disappeared today worldwide, I wouldn't miss it one second. It's really more of a chore than anything else. When you're looking for a job, or looking to recruit, it's helpful, but they haven't made the case of general everyday use, and I doubt they ever will.
Really? Three of my last five jobs came from Linked-in.
I find it very convenient to have offers come-in out of the blue, only having to pay the cost of tweaking my profile once a year, and occasionally skimming/deleting random recruiter messages.
I see it as being open to opportunities. Usually, I would only look for a job when: 1) Unemployed, or 2) Unsatisfied at my current position. In both cases I would be motivated to solve the problem ASAP.
But being approached when happily employed gives you the upper hand during negotiations, allowing you to make demands that you would usually not be so confident to make. Not to mention becoming aware of good opportunities when your "job radar" is turned off.
Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
#30It still blows my mind that people are on linkedin. If you are not a recruiter/hiring manager it's only real purpose (that I can see) is to be a boasting board for achievements and a easy to ignore place to receive recruiting emails.
Does anyone get any other value out of it?