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Russia Bans Roblox

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Re: Russia Bans Roblox

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Post by johncolanduoni »

Alex2037 wrote: post #8
grishka wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we have to use censorship circumvention tools to make the internet usable. Especially when it's mobile data. About a year ago I got fed up enough that I bought an OpenWRT router and installed Zapret on it. Now, at least while at home, I can mostly forget that internet censorship is a thing.

Zapret isn't good enough, because a lot of random websites geoblock RU via Cloudflare. you'd be better off with a VPN running on a cheap VPS.

VPNs on cheap VPSes are blocked quite a lot too.

Re: Russia Bans Roblox

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Post by grishka »

Alex2037 wrote: post #8
grishka wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we have to use censorship circumvention tools to make the internet usable. Especially when it's mobile data. About a year ago I got fed up enough that I bought an OpenWRT router and installed Zapret on it. Now, at least while at home, I can mostly forget that internet censorship is a thing.

Zapret isn't good enough, because a lot of random websites geoblock RU via Cloudflare. you'd be better off with a VPN running on a cheap VPS.

Of course I also have a VPN that I selectively route traffic through, in just these kinds of situations.

Re: Russia Bans Roblox

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Post by [deleted] »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #5
ch2026 wrote: post #4

Incidentally nobody in Russia can read that article because they already banned the BBC and 80 other EU media outlets. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Twitter. And Discord. This is standard Russian censorship of western media and news.

Everybody in Russia who is not a complete idiot already has a VPN that allows to circumvent censorship (for now). Source: I'm in Russia now. In the end it'll likely end with whitelists of allowed IP addresses, and that will indeed insure that nobody would be able to access banned resources.

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Post by SanjayMehta »

ch2026 wrote: post #4

Incidentally nobody in Russia can read that article because they already banned the BBC and 80 other EU media outlets. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Twitter. And Discord. This is standard Russian censorship of western media and news.

Russia Today et al are banned in the EU.

This is standard European censorship of Russian media and news.

Re: Russia Bans Roblox

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Post by extesy »

booi wrote: post #9

I don’t get it. Roblox is an American company. Wouldn’t the pretty broad sanctions prevent them from operating there already?

That depends on what you mean by "operating". This very website, Hacker News, is not blocked in Russia - does that mean Y Combinator is "operating" there?

Re: Russia Bans Roblox

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Post by DecoPerson »

briantakita wrote: post #10

Roblox has been banned in China since 2021. Perhaps it's something to do with nationalist governments not liking global corporate circumvention of their culture/power.

Or maybe Roblox is causing harm to children and nationalist governments are the fastest to both recognise and respond to the issue.

We can speculate all day, but we should try to analyse these sorts of things from a learning perspective. What can we learn from Russia, China, etc? How are they better?

Re: Russia Bans Roblox

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Post by itroot »

ch2026 wrote: post #4

Incidentally nobody in Russia can read that article because they already banned the BBC and 80 other EU media outlets. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Twitter. And Discord. This is standard Russian censorship of western media and news.

I'm from Russia (currently in Moscow), and I can read your comment just fine without VPN. BBC won't open... which is fine, as I jump straight to comments as many do here :))) .

Also do not miss twitter and facebook. Youtube is working (so far) with no ads.

Also stuff like WaPo is perfectly acessible. Sometimes I skim through it (also mostly comments), then check ZeroHedge to get the opposite view.

So a lot of info is acessible. Quite a few of resources are blocked on the other side though.

I surely can use VPN but prefer not to unless that required for more intellectual activity then reading news.

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