> what's with all the apps etc being banned though? oh yeah, i only remembered about that point after i sent the post. the bureaucrats are overstepping their boundaries recently and are becoming extremely annoying with their web censorship. a lot of things lead to the fact it's just one company owner/oligarch paid enough to eliminate the foreign competitors. a couple years ago vk tried to compete with messengers, rkn tried to ban telegram under some shaky pretext, failed at its only job and eventually dropped the accusations. now vk introduced its "domestic alternative" to discord in august and voila, discord gets a notice on its basic moderation email that it will be blocked in the country in 24 hours unless it complies and deletes all the bad stuff, and it was indeed blocked, before the discord team even opened the mail. vk creates vk.video and youtube becomes unusable. rkn blames google for not maintaining their servers properly. vk tries to sell videogames, there's talk of blocking steam. you get the idea. a very clear case of favoritism by the government structures amidst all the sanctions and foreign companies pulling out, but a lot of courts and/or putin have to get involved to spread awareness before being able to overturn this shit. no idea how long it will take and whether it will bring any results at all. it's fucking tiresome.
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