• bamboo@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Blocking a large messaging platform because a minority of people are using it for piracy, of all things, seems extremely disproportionate

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      7 months ago

      And it is pointless too as there are countless other messaging apps that can be used and countless others ways that can be created to circumvent. Law makers clearly do not get tech.

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      7 months ago

      I mean Telegram has been blocked in Russia before and it didn’t stop their operations for too long. At best now some engineer at telegram has one more ticket and things will be back to normal.

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        7 months ago

        and it didn’t stop their operations for too long

        You had to change proxies regularly, so it did. With some ISPs, at least.

        I think it wasn’t for really blocking it, just to test whether they can block it if they need it, during some big events.