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Meanwhile in the real world Russia is turning into a North Korea lite, and average Russians are dooming. The realization that Russia isn't strong, that it has fucked up the invasion, that the economy will not improve anytime soon and that Russia has turned into a isolated and outleveraged state has lately been followed up with the realization that the Kremlin is locking down the internet hard and is creating a digital gulag to keep the pesky serfs on their best behavior at all times.
The takedown of the internet was a sliding scale and started about a year ago by throttling internet speeds for YouTube, Twitter and Gmail. Putin simps didn't think much of it because 'da evil West'. This move was then was followed by an announcement on a Western app ban, which was followed by fines+ possible jailtime for VPN usage to bypass the ban. Last month this coalesced in the mandatory pre-installed government everything-app called Max. The Max superapp is preinstalled on all new devices and is impossible to delete. Max will act as the prime surveillance tool monitoring all the users' combined activity, like WeChat does in China.
Bonusinfo: there is a new Russian law on 'extremism' and it is designed in such a way that it can punish you for wrongthink searches, aka asking Yandex why Jews own every sector of Russia's economy, why half the Kremlin is of Jewish descent and why Russia imports over 2 million migroids a year will get you a knock on the door and possibly a one way trip to the furthest penal colony. Absolutely based!
New Russian law criminalises searching for content deemed 'extremist'
The changes represent Russia's latest internet restriction, following measures taken against social media platforms and foreign technology companies since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. #EuropeNewswww.euronews.com
The Russian takedown of the free internet continues, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has become the subject of a criminal investigation by the authorities, the investigation concerns Durov allegedly 'facilitating terrorist and criminal activities'. The Telegram app itself has been throttled since February 13 already, when Roskomnadzor concluded that Telegram is not complying with Russian law on 'combating fraud, blocking terrorist content and other violations of the Russian law'.
This is exactly the same playbook used with Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail etc. All are (practically) banned by now. Russian Telegram users too are being herded onto the WeChat like Max superapp, as Durov explains below.