simpleRussia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level
HonytawkBut how are their propaganda farms going to be able to pretend they are in your country now?
Maybe they don’t actually have all those propaganda farms that the dems were crying about, did that thought cross your mind?
They exist. Inform yourself on the Internet Research Agency, one of Russia’s state sponsored troll farms. ‘Dems’ weren’t crying about it, every rational person who doesn’t want foreign interference and disinformation flooding our spaces is concerned about it. This should not be a partisan issue whatsoever.
talYeah, I don't even really have a problem with RT, as long as it's labeled so that people understand that it's the Russian state speaking. But a lot of forums rely more-or-less on the idea that people are more-or-less good faith actors. Very large scale efforts to have people pretend to be someone else and make non-good-faith arguments is something that I think that a lot of our forums can't today handle well.
Arguably, that's a technical problem that needs to be fixed in some way.