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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by mlkmt on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:53PM (#30470004)
anyone knows how Russia limited the access?
Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by abdullin on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:03PM (#30470147)
(lived in Russia until 2021, not authorative source of info)

All ISP providers are required to have black boxes installed on-site. These boxes can do traffic shaping (e.g. Twitter is degraded) and basic filtering based on IP addresses. I think, deep packet inspection is also feasible.

Config updates are pushed centrally to these boxes.

Self-managed VPNs still work.

Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by cutemonster on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:55PM (#30472262)
What about Tor?

Or if Twitter gets more IP addresses, they'll work for a short while, until black box config updated?

Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by colinmhayes on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:38PM (#30472670)
Tor provides degraded access without government intervention.
Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by orthoxerox on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:11PM (#30472426)
Tor is for nerds, they don't count. You can't expect regular people to run Tor on their phones.
Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by cutemonster on Sunday February 27, 2022 @04:26AM (#30486692)
If I ask if there's any place to buy rollerblades nearby, do you think that means I expect everyone to go by rollerblades?
Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by baybal2 on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:53PM (#30470730)
These ISP blackboxes central command should be a prime target now.