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Yorkie Mom

(16,420 posts) Fri Mar 4, 2022, 04:01 PM Mar 2022

Russia blocks Twitter after Facebook.

Russia completely blocks access to Facebook and Twitter

Move to block Facebook retaliates against platform placing restrictions on state-owned media

Russia has completely blocked access to Facebook in retaliation for the platform placing restrictions on state-owned media.

It was later reported that it had also blocked Twitter.

Facebook and its sister platform Instagram have removed Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik from their output in the European Union this week and did the same with the UK on Friday, which drew an immediate response from the Russian communications regulator.

The Roskomnadzor watchdog said there had been 26 cases of discrimination against Russian media by Facebook since October 2020, with access restricted to state-backed news services like Russia Today and the RIA news agency. Last week the regulator had announced a “partial” block of Facebook, claiming that the social network had violated the “rights and freedoms of Russian nationals”.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/russia-completely-blocks-access-to-facebook-and-twitter

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Russia blocks Twitter after Facebook. (Original Post) Yorkie Mom Mar 2022 OP

so the Russian people won't know about the sanctions... they'll just blame the government directly renate Mar 2022 #1

How do the people of Russia get any new now outside of Russian propaganda? Yorkie Mom Mar 2022 #3

I'd love to know that too! Young people must know how to access the outside world renate Mar 2022 #7

They're afraid of their people C_U_L8R Mar 2022 #2

Rights and freedoms of Russians????? LiberalFighter Mar 2022 #4

Keep pissing your own people off, assholes. grumpyduck Mar 2022 #5

Is Truth Social still up and running? SoonerPride Mar 2022 #6

renate

(13,776 posts)

1. so the Russian people won't know about the sanctions... they'll just blame the government directly

Reply to Yorkie Mom (Original post)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 04:05 PM

Mar 2022

When there is no food or heat.

Same result (in the long run), different cause. If the police stop getting paid in money that actually enables them to feed themselves and their families, protests may be a lot more possible.

Yorkie Mom

(16,420 posts)

3. How do the people of Russia get any new now outside of Russian propaganda?

Reply to renate (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 04:06 PM

Mar 2022

renate

(13,776 posts)

7. I'd love to know that too! Young people must know how to access the outside world

Reply to Yorkie Mom (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 04:19 PM

Mar 2022

But if their parents used to have access to Facebook and Twitter but suddenly don't, they're going to notice. That's news in and of itself.

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)

2. They're afraid of their people

Reply to Yorkie Mom (Original post)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 04:06 PM

Mar 2022

They want to stop their people from seeing the truth and they're most afraid that their people will organize against them. That's a losing play straight from the deposed dictator cookbook.