• @[email protected]
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    832 months ago

    People! Pay attention! THIS is why censorship is so bad. THIS is the slippery slope it leads to. Censoring information is just the first step in controlling the public, and keeping them uninformed/misinformed.

    It’s the same as burning books. It’s the same as shutting down websites. It’s the same as only allowing state only channels to report news.

    Back in the 80s the USA knew about chernobyl about a week after it happened. Russian citizens didn’t know for 3-4 weeks later.

    China knew about Covid in August of 2019. They tried to supress the news until it finally leaked in November 2019.

    Now russia wants to supress information of how badly the “special military operation” is going…almost 3 years into a 3 day operation.

    So make sure you take note when people around you try to supress information, and ask WHY they want to do that. Looking at you, Florida…

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      Russians: We had a nuclear incident

      Americans: it must be really bad then

      Russians: We never said it’s bad

      Americans: Listen, if it was not bad, you wouldn’t even admit you had a nuclear incident.

  • Guy Dudeman
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    102 months ago

    Looks like Matrix is about to see an influx of users. And they can’t shut down Matrix.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      I highly doubt regular users will exchange Discord for Matrix. Don’t get me wrong, Matrix is great and all, has some great features, but given its open decentralized way it is and probably always will be mostly for tech savvy people. Now given how half of the Discord (the part I know) is memes and gifs spam, it’s not really easily reproducible with Matrix. At least last time I checked Element still didn’t have gif picker…

    • Draconic NEO
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      22 months ago

      Many Russians already use matrix, they may not use it seriously but they use it.

      I mean in the past few days I’ve seen like 20 Russian trolls, spamming scat porn, racial slurs, racist memes, extremist memes, you name it.

      So yeah I would say that matrix is already decently popular among Russians. Maybe not for legitimate use but it’s still definitely popular among them.

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    42 months ago

    I doubt it’s anyhow important for them, it’s just Discord is one anothee channel to block that isn’t used by his core support base, and the goal is to block everything or\and draw nice monthly reports about that process.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    This is great news. It should help justify banning TikTok! We all work together to save the children now! \s