I know that "violence is never the answer" but it's pretty pretty hard to swallow when corrupted thiefs and murderers have state-guaranteed monopoly of physical violence. I can't accept that, and no one should.
What do you mean? Could you elaborate?
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#42- Google removes Navalny's team google document with "Smart Vote" instructions. - YouTube blocks videos with Smart Vote instructions. - Telegram blocks a bot with Smart Vote the instructions
If Americans can ban their own opposition from their internet (Parler, Gab, and countless people blocked on mainstream platforms), then it's very hard to argue that the authoritarian Russian government shouldn't ban their opposition from the internet. Perhaps some on-chain solutions will help circumvent the American and Russian restrictions in a few years. Solana sounds like a good candidate for this sort of platform…
Why do you always bring up America when we're talking about injustices in other countries?
As a Russian, it pisses me off. It's like saying "black people shouldn't moan, because white people suffer too".
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#43I know that "violence is never the answer" but it's pretty pretty hard to swallow when corrupted thiefs and murderers have state-guaranteed monopoly of physical violence. I can't accept that, and no one should.
A monk asked Pa Ling, "What is the Blown Hair Sword? " Pa Ling said, "Each branch of coral supports the moon"
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#44> On Friday, sources confirmed on background that at least one of the U.S.-based companies implementing the restriction felt compelled to comply for fear that local staff could face legal action upon receipt of a takedown order from the Russian Federation. Really making the world a better place. How hard would it be to have employees from outside the country make the app review, and shield local employees from this?…
That is the definition of foreign power interference.
I wish there was a foreign power interference in Russia. At this point I will accept NATO intervention (will never happen though, West is just complicit with Putin).
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Parler isn't banned from the internet, it's banned from AWS and mobile app stores. These bans weren't ordered by the government either.
It was similar to self-censure from Amazon, that is if they wanted to still gain lucrative contracts with the military-industrial complex opposed by the candidate that they banned. To say nothing of the personal vendetta between the owner of Amazon and said candidate, the owner being the wealthyest man on Earth and directly controlling a big mouth-piece of the media (WashPo). The US is by definition an oligarchic sta…
Do you really think the previous president and the current president are enemies?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is the definition of foreign power interference.
I wish there was a foreign power interference in Russia. At this point I will accept NATO intervention (will never happen though, West is just complicit with Putin).
You can move to Afghanistan to see enjoy one.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In this case there's not many reasons for it to be a native app instead of a Progressive Web App. This would simplify distribution. The opposite of this is true. Blocking a web application is very easy for Russian authorities, there are well-established legal and technical protocols for that, it's a routine, it happens every day. The opposition uses apps precisely because they are more difficult to censor.
So is this app using some other protocols that aren't DNS/http(s) that would make it immune to a dns level block? Because a native app that makes http calls is just as easy to block as a pwa
The app uses the same technology as some trojans: it connects to different pseudorandomly-generated domain names under Cloudflare protection, changing at least several times per day.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Given that, one would assume they are willing to take a hit in profit (by not selling & not cooperating) in places like Russia and China. If Apple didn't cooperate with China, there would be no iPhones, and Apple wouldn't meaningfully exist. iPhones are nearly exclusively manufactured in China. All the chips in iPhones, iPads, and now the most important macs are exclusively manufactured immediately adjacent to Chin…
Just say 'Taiwan' it's not hard. It's OK, HN is in America.
Taiwan is irrelevant to the point I'm making. As the Taiwanese people are acutely aware, if push comes to shove, that supply chain comes under the physical control of the CCP/PLA in single-digit hours (albeit in a nonfunctional state).
The CCP has veto power over the production of all iPhones and iPads (and soon Macs) in the whole world. This has little/nothing to do with Taiwan, other than their unfortunate proximity to China.
If Apple wants to continue existing in any meaningful form, they must presently do what the CCP wants.
This goes the same for selling their devices in any given jurisdiction, such as Russia, to keep this on topic for TFA.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Americans can ban their own opposition from their internet (Parler, Gab, and countless people blocked on mainstream platforms), then it's very hard to argue that the authoritarian Russian government shouldn't ban their opposition from the internet. Perhaps some on-chain solutions will help circumvent the American and Russian restrictions in a few years. Solana sounds like a good candidate for this sort of platform…
Why do you always bring up America when we're talking about injustices in other countries? As a Russian, it pisses me off. It's like saying "black people shouldn't moan, because white people suffer too".
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#50The restrictions are quite useless (and BTW the website is quite horrible and has a bad security record). Even in Yandex you can easily find the list on various websites. It has even been duplicated to Wikipedia:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_кандидатов_по_одноманда...