On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:21:02PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
https://torrentfreak.com/russia-orders-major-vpn-providers-to-block-banned-s... https://www.docdroid.net/p1YUjYR/torguard-roscomnadzor.pdf
Russia banning everything...
During the past few days, telecoms watch Roscomnadzor says it sent compliance notifications to 10 major VPN services with servers inside Russia -- NordVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, VPN Unlimited, VyprVPN, Kaspersky Secure Connection, HideMyAss!, Hola VPN, and OpenVPN. The government agency is demanding that the affected services begin interfacing with the FGIS database, blocking the sites listed within. Several other local companies -- search giant Yandex, Sputnik, Mail.ru, and Rambler -- are already connected to the database and filtering as required.
"Since when has censorship every gone wrong?" Fundamentally, depriving humans of their fundamental human rights, such as the right to communicate freely, which implies anonymously (for without anonymous communication, like whispering between neighbours or friends, then any despot can imprison, torture etc, thus making communication fundamentally non-free) eventually causes a backlash. Perhaps some enterprising Russkies will finally get some full p2p/n2n local node mesh networkie thing happening. Would be a great day since if some I2P Neighbour to Neighbour type thing takes off, we'll all be morally and spiritually better off for it, despite the natural consequences of empowering to some degree, illegal and "illegal" activity. Actual freedom means taking some of the actual "bad" of life with the good, otherwise freedom (in a particular domain) does not exist. The clamour for safety, for protection by any external authority such as government, inevitably ends up with that external authority being targetted by sociopaths and despots who end up exercising the "power to protect" or "responsibility to protect" (R2P), despotically and sociopathically. This is as natural and as certain as water flowing downhill. The fundamental human malaise today is the desire for protection and safety (and even comfort!) by external authorities - that is, by authorities external to ones self. Good luck, and create your world,