Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl
We don't need to do this, because unless you are using a prepaid SIM - and never had a subscription SIM in the same phone, Danish and European authorities already have that information.
Did you notice how getting a prepaid SIM became a lot harder a few years ago? I used to have a prepaid SIM that I paid 99,- for per year, and now I'm paying 79,- per month for pretty much the same use, simply because prepaid became too cumbersome.
Russia presumably have a lot more people using prepaid SIMs, so they can't get the information via the phone company.
Hey Captain Obvious 👋
You're talking area @ketumbra while I'm talking population - both of the nation and it's prisons (which is one of the few things the USA is still #1 at)
My primary school grasp of geography remains thankfully intact.
@krejgo I mean there's a VIDEO of something happening in Russia and you're like BUT AMERICA LOLOL
Dude, you're sticking up for actual crimes, it's pathetic as shit
@randahl indistinguishable footage, the EU are massive hypocrites and secretly jealous of the control Putin can exert on his population
@randahl I understand why they do it. But they're on the losing end anyway.
They can either disable the mobile network or otherwise the Ukraine will find a way to control their drones.
The corruption in Russia becomes a huge advantage for it's opponents. If you have the money, there will always be a way.
From what I hear, they tend towards rolling back mobile internet. So that country will become even more of a hellhole.
@inpc @randahl Even if you buy with cash you (in most cases) end up 'using' the phone like a normal person; which builds out a combination of location data and contact activity.
Especially with a massive sino-russian border I don't doubt that someone who really cared could make two 'clean' phones and some anonymous IoT SIMs fall off the back of a truck, one to stay with the bomb and one to detonate it with; but users like that aren't getting their phones checked by random street cops.
i have 100s of comments hating on the govt of russia, putin, the kremlin
but i'm careful not to demonize regular russians, because yes, while many of them are loser assholes who support the stupid ethnofascist war on ukraine, many are not
and thus, not as some high minded moral principle, but simply as a matter of good tactics and strategy, we don't demonize all russians, simply because if putin is to be overthrown, it will be regular russians doing it
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oh hey timur, thanks for that gatekeeping
so i'll talk about whatever the fuck i want to talk about
i'll use this comment here for example to tell gatekeeping shitbags to shut the fuck up and trip on their front steps and wind up the hospital
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are you latvian?
i just saw the tld on your profile name
in which case, i have to apologize to you
i give poles, lithuanians, estonians, latvians, ukrainians, etc all the leeway in the world to be as russophobic as they want. you are entitled to that
again, apologies, i didn't know where you were from
Seems incongruous to decry police-state behavior in a police-state with your face visible. Video looks real but, I wonder.
I can definitely see something like this coming to the USA.
@mikelovesbikes I should be more precise: In Russia, they have an extreme internet surveillance system already, which monitors all internet activity. By manually fetching the IMEI from people, I suspect they can now guarntee a connection between the surveillance information and the device owner. So instead of knowing that SOMEONE visited a site sympathetic to Ukraine, they now know WHO did.
Does that make sense?
@randahl the f**k is that? I meant the police or whatever doing that, not the number.
In 🇺🇸 the IT companies inform the government, for a fee.
The whole world is 1984. Idk which country/government is absolutely free for being monitored. 🇩🇪? 🇫🇷?
@hakudzero Did Ukraine invade Russia in February 2022, or did Russia invade Ukraine?
Once you get that right, you know who the terrorists are.
Украинцы осторожно уничтожают нефтеперерабатывающие заводы
в то время как русские осторожно бомбят многоквартирные дома, больницы и школы
в войне, которую начала Россия, ради этнофашистского империализма, геноцида и массовых убийств
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