About half the people who completely demonize this will still call for some form of it in America. “We won’t abuse it unlike them.” “We need to stomp out hate speech” “Think of the children”.
This is disgusting no matter what, and even if you somehow think a current government won’t abuse this, what happens when someone else runs the government?
Couldn’t agree more! This is why the internet needs to stay as it is: anonymous, uncensored and open to all. At this point a free and open internet is an essential part of liberty.
Internet is hardly anonymous unless out really go out of your…
It is very much censored just not here so far.
It us vaguely open to all but we got some barriers. But access in US is good.
Seems like Putin is trying to recreate the CCP’s great firewall to hide the scope of his failure in invading Ukraine. It kind of reminds me of the last days of the USSR when they tried desperately to hide how bad the situation was. I’m curious how he technically plans to prevent foreign VPN use, he could create lists of known servers but my understanding is that VPN traffic is encrypted and not able to be identified as such, and of course he’s incapable of stopping starlink or similar satellite internet access.
It is possible to detect if traffic is being tunneled through a VPN with deep packet inspection. The great firewall actually does this and blocks popular VPN protocols like wireguard. However its possible to bypass the firewall by hiding/masking the traffic as being HTTPS data (like visiting a website) with software like shadowsocks.
Let’s hear the defense, Tankies. Tell us why this is a good thing.
I’m not a tankie, but I don’t think that the idea of justifying political repression in Russia is likely to be much of a challenge. The Bolsheviks justified single-party rule and their own political repressions for a long time. If you’re a tankie, you’re presumably already willing to accept that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism
Vanguardism in the context of Leninist revolutionary struggle, relates to a strategy whereby the most class-conscious and politically “advanced” sections of the proletariat or working class, described as the revolutionary vanguard, form organizations to advance the objectives of communism.
The notion of a ‘vanguard’, as used by Lenin before 1917, did not necessarily imply single-party rule. Lenin considered the Social-Democrats (Bolsheviks) the leading elements of a multi-class (and multi-party) democratic struggle against Tsarism.[7] For a period after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks (now renamed the Communist Party) operated in the soviets, trade unions, and other working-class mass organisations with other revolutionary parties, such as Mensheviks, Social-Revolutionaries and anarcho-communists, and local soviets often elected non-Bolshevik majorities.[8] Lenin did consider the Bolsheviks the vanguard insofar as they were the most consistent defenders of Soviet power (which he considered the dictatorship of the proletariat or ‘Commune-state’).[9] However, the situation changed drastically during the Russian Civil War and economic collapse, which decimated the working class and its independent institutions, and saw the development of irreconcilable conflicts between the Bolsheviks and their rivals. At the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1921, the Party made the de facto reality de jure by outlawing opposition parties and formalising single-Party rule.[10]
The impetus for having a vanguard party was used by the Bolsheviks to justify their suppression of other parties. Their rationale was that since they were the vanguard of the proletariat, their right to rule could not be legitimately questioned.
No tankie worth their salt would say it’s a good thing, lol. Being anti-NATO doesn’t immediately mean someone is pro-Putin.
There are lots of pro-Putin Tankies. Lots and lots.
Funnily enough that’s what the right-wing nuts and left-wing nuts in Germany have in common. We’re living in the strangest timeline.
Propaganda good enough to blur any lines
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Just other pro genocidal super stars of 1900s?
Are you implying killing Nazi soldiers during ww2 was bad?
Killing Nazis isn’t bad, allying with them before being betrayed was. Killing Nazis in self-defense isn’t genocide, Holodomor was.
So by those rules you imply the whole west is genocidal and Nazist?
- USA: genocide of it’s poor, black and indigenous population (by both violence and forced poverty), anti-immigrant policies, police violence, and support for right-wing coups over the world, with Ukraine being the most notable among the recent ones
- Canada: genocide of indigenous population, forced castration, support for right-wing coups
- France: anti-immigrants, support for right-wing coups, exploitation and genocide of Africans
- Australia: see USA, except for being a direct financial contributor to right-wing coups (but supporting them nonetheless)
Every western power is genocidal and imperialist, and most crises currently ongoing are way worse than that tired example you gave. Do you just care if the suffering population is white?
Also, about allying with Nazis: after WW2, who brought home Nazi high officials and gave them positions of power in their own countries again? USA and UK, if you don’t remember.
Putin has signed new laws that will decimate online anonymity
So Putin is going to remove 10% of online anonymity?
Putin forces 90% of online anonymity to murder the remaining 10%.
Decimate means remove 90% right?
Not originally when it was a punishment for legions that fled in battle. Every ten men would draw lots and one of them would be killed.
Damn, this looks like China’s Internet Real-name System
What about those Russian trolls, then?
The ones spewing Russian propaganda? Probably the government itself
