Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc...
by foka86 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:51AM
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Telegram is not the most popular messenger in Russia. It's not even in top-3 as far as I remember. But it is widely used by people who tend to be opposite to the current government (young professionals). Also, there are a lot of anonymous Telegram channels curated by the opposition.
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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc...
by chupasaurus on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:44AM
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Telegram was reported by one of three russian cellular network companies as 2nd after Viber by number of clients (both each day and simultanious peak) nearly a week prior to blocking.
Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc...
by Beltiras on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:17AM
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It's going to take those people a hot 15 seconds to find another provider and switch.
Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc...
by konart on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:22AM
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Not only Telegram still working here, but it was a great experience yesterday.
Imagine the following: a manager in a supermarket explaining how to setup a proxy to a customer so that she (a woman in her 60s) could use their bot again.
Or a woman with a kid who is asking what the are going to do: "It's okay, we'll ask dad and he's going to do proxy-something".
Cyberpunk is now.
Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc...
by learningto on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:14AM
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Similar things long going on in Crimea for the same reasons established by the other side (whatsapp and viber are blocked by whatsapp and viber owners correspondingly). When I was there, everyone seemed to have a vpn on their phones and getting it installed was none of a problem.
Smarter people are better!