Instagram is Now Blocked in Russia (techcrunch.com) 97
Russia followed through on its threat to block Meta-owned Instagram on Monday, cutting off access to tens of millions of users in the country. From a report: Instagram is popular in Russia. It's Meta's second most popular app there, according to data from Sensor Tower, behind ubiquitous messaging service WhatsApp. The app has been installed 166 million times across the Russian App Store and Google Play since 2014, making it three times as popular as Facebook. After Russian censor Roskomnadzor announced that the government would restrict access to the app following a 48-hour "transition period," Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri condemned Russia's actions, which will affect 80 million people in the country.
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If they said the sky was blue I would look up.
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Is that what you think she did? Less extreme right "news" for you, it's rotting your brain.
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Ok, you go stand a few hundred meters downwind from a biohazard storage facility being hit with high explosive artillery shells if you think that the only risk of biolabs in war zones are due to weapons research and production.
Oh, you don't want to do that all of a sudden?
Now go be a useful idiot somewhere that people don't think, because you don't fit in here.
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Now don't insult the developmentally disabled by lumping this propagandist fuckwit in with them. They didn't do anything to deserve that.
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Ask yourself, Russian propagandist: why would the United States build illegal bioweapons labs in a country that is right next to a geopolitical foe who has already taken parts of that country through clandestine revolt and illegal annexation, and has been in a civil war for 8 years? And if this was actually a "reason" to have a "special military operation" (read: war) in that country, why wasn't it stated before the troops started rolling in, instead of two weeks after some fucking idiot frozen foods heir
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Again, let's apply occam's razor here. it's either:
1. Biolabs used for totally legitimate testing for agricultural diseases to know if they need to quarantine crops and animals to not devastate food production in a region that feeds far more countries than just Ukraine;
or
2. Clandestine labs for building illegal weapons that the United States has ratified treaties to ban, on foreign soil that happens to be in a country at the top of the "to invade" list posted on the cork board in Putin's office.
"Research m
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How about just a little simple logic? How do you think the WHO and the CDC get data about disease outbreaks in different countries? Don't you think there might be labs in literally every developed country that studies these things, partially funded by the CDC so that the CDC gets access to the data?
No, obviously it must be SUPER SCARY BIOWEAPONS LABS funded by the EVIL CIA on the foreign soil of nations undergoing civil wars and hostile invasions from neighboring foes, in facilities that those foes built
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> How's what Putin's doing that different than what the West is doing? Putin is using the "Nineteen Eighty-four" approach; we're using the "Brave New World" approach.
Does Russia have the option of sealing data about the war for 75 years? After which time we can make a fair assessment.
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Putin wants to bring Russia back to the Soviet era, except this time without even free moldy state bread to stand in long lines for.
Imagine a far right version of North Korea. This will be VERY bad for the Russians and neighboring countries.
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If we are applying sanctions across the entire Russian population, most of which have nothing to do with the actual invasion, shouldn't we make sure social media channels all remain open in order to help people complain to other people in Russia bout this?
Killing off social media seems like it would aid Putin in pretending there is no opposition to his actions, because none will be easily viewable by masses of people.
FFS, first line in the summary: "Russia followed through on its threat to block Meta-owned Instagram on Monday"
Yep, missed that (Score:1)
first line in the summary: "Russia followed through on its threat to block Meta-owned Instagram
My bad, I did totally miss that and thought it was Instagram doing the blocking. Thanks for the correction.
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Instagram did not block Russia. Russia blocked Instagram. Because of exactly what you said: the uncontrolled spread of non-state-controlled "information".
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Russia only invades countries when Democrats are in power...
They invaded Hungary while Eisenhower was president.
We gotta stop helping the Russians (Score:2)
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We need to start airdropping Starlink dishes into Russia immediately.
According to polls a majority of Russians support the invasion of Ukraine. It shows the power of propaganda and control of information.
Putingram (Score:2)
Everything Russians need is now on Putingram. You can post all of the pro-Russia pictures you want*, plus incriminating pictures of Ukrainian 'nazis'. Putingram, only best social media for the strongest country.
* Not posting pro-Russia pictures is a crime, phones will be searched
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Now - where's that ASCII art?
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They will just lease Trump's "Truth" platform and taylor it for the local political narrative.
Trump will have no problem with this as long as Putin keeps him happy with big bags of money.
Not everything is blocked (Score:2)
Russians can still watch Tucker Carlson [theguardian.com]!
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Someone's jealous.
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"Russian department of information and telecommunications support."
Ministry of Truth is much easier to say and remember.
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Good. Tucker is at least asking questions instead of repeating press releases.
Well at least not American press releases [politifact.com].
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"You might want to ask why europe is supporting Russia by purchasing their energy. Who is the real Russian agents here?"
Because "1 wUnT cHe3p gAs!!1!", long term consequences be damned.
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Have you ever considered that American press releases may not be telling you the truth?
Of course, but the "biowarfare labs" conspiracy theory is just plain dumb. There's no evidence and zero reason for the US to do so.
And "American press releases" are far from only the source in agreement with that. American, Canadian, and European Press and analysts are in sound agreement. And unlike in Russia, they don't get thrown in jail for disagreeing with the government.
If Tucker and Trump are Russian agents why are they telling europe to stop importing Russian energy.
I don't think either are Russian agents, though they certainly act like it sometimes.
Rather, they share some common enemies with Putin
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American, Canadian, and European Press and analysts are in sound agreement. Yeah you might want to ask why that is too.
Because, for the most part, they're trying to be truthful.
I do not know about biowarfare facilities but I do know that europe is still buying Russian energy and refuses to stop.
Europe needs a lot of natural gas for heating and power, and historically Russia is a cheap and plentiful source of natural gas.
In the long term they seem to really be trying to find alternative sources (both alternative sources of gas, and alternative sources of energy), but in the short term I believe they literally don't have the facilities to transport in enough gas from other sources to fulfil their needs.
Those are hard facts. How did they get dependent on Russia and why did they not stop after trump warned them in 2018? Maybe you are looking for Russian agents in the wrong place.
Trump wasn't some prophet, people have b
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Tucker and Trump comments were a gold mine to Russian propaganda efforts - almost like they were bribed or somehow motivated to make those comments.
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Treasonshit Tucker has been on the russian take for a long while. Fox's alliance with Trump was notable given the numerous ties [washingtonpost.com] that Trump's businesses [foreignpolicy.com] have to russian money, and Fox's similar [nytimes.com] connections [rollingstone.com].
Tucker is going to be parroting Russian propaganda "word for word" [independent.co.uk] because that's what Russia is paying him to do.
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Because talk is cheap? Trump can (and very often does) bloviate about anything he wants, but an entire continent can't just flip a switch and magically get 40% of it's natgas from somewhere else. It takes years to get that done, even if there's some other source available, which there really isn't without spending years to create one. It's about like me saying "well if you're that worried about gasoline prices, just get an EV" full well knowing that 1. you won't; and 2. even if you wanted to, you're mont
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In Soviet Europe .... (Score:2)
Lucky them! (Score:2)
No more Instagram? I'm jealous!
I'd be happy it it disappeared here, and would be ecstatic if US 'news' articles would stop citing random Twitter comments as legit article research and evidence we'd make some real progress.
Oh an 'influencers' can we do something about that nonsense :)
Some accurate context would be even better. (Score:2)
Calling for the death of invading soldiers who are actively bombing your countries civilians would seem to be quite normal.
Putin the war criminal is trying to cry about hate sp
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Maybe the judges will go easier on them because their feels were hurt.
keeping up with the crypto-comm(ie)s (Score:2)
Given the speed at which technology moves these days, it's remarkable how long it took for Instagram to get blockchained. If they want to keep up, they had better get metaversed in NFTs pretty soon, too!
Hit them where it hurts. (Score:2)
Block access to OnlyFans.