I don’t know how it is possible that Russia is sending ambassadors back to their countries for participating in riots, while at the same time allowing the platform where these riots were publicly planned by Western intelligence services to function in their country.
It makes absolutely no sense.
So now they’re slowing the traffic?
RT:
Twitter users in Russia are about to find it takes longer to share their thoughts online, as authorities start slowing the service’s connection speeds amid a row over illegal content hosted by the US-based social media giant.
Communications regulator Roskomnadzor issued a statement on Wednesday morning announcing the decision, which it says is because Twitter “does not remove content that incites minors to commit suicide, contains child pornography or information about the use of drugs.”
The watchdog claims it has sent more than 28,000 requests for posts, links and publications to be deleted or blocked on the platform. However, at present, “3,168 pieces of content containing prohibited information… remain not deleted.” These reportedly include more than 2,500 calls for children to kill themselves and 450 involving child pornography.
Accusing the network of failing to adhere to Russian laws, Roskomnadzor said that “the latest vivid example was the demonstrative disregard for the requirements of the regulator to remove calls to minors to commit mass suicide.” Unlike other social networks, officials claim, “Twitter did not delete the materials.”
If the company continues to refuse to comply with the requests, Moscow says, “these measures will continue in line with regulations, up to the point of blocking” the service.
Anton Gorelkin, a member of the Russian Parliament’s information policy committee said that the assembly supported the move, and that “it is a pity that Russian users have become hostages to decisions by Twitter.” But, justifying the slowdown, he said, “the state simply has no other tools to influence the violator.” Senator Alexander Bashkin added that other social media sites should take notice, claiming that “this will act as a wake up call for YouTube and other networks that make gains at the expense of law and order in Russia.”
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that social media sites are being used “to promote completely unacceptable content: for the distribution of child pornography, prostitution, for driving minors to suicide.” He called for tough action on those using the internet to “try to take advantage of children in cold blood [in order to] achieve their own selfish, ‘ferret’ goals.”
At the same time, he also singled out organizers of political rallies, such as those held in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov later clarified that the president “was talking about those who call on children to take to the streets, breaking the law, and to participate in uncoordinated, unauthorized actions… he was talking about those who are engaged in criminal activity.”
It’s absurd to do this “oh child porn, oh child suicides” – ban them as a hostile foreign entity attempting to incite revolution!
You’ve seen this before, Russia!
There is no path to Russia continuing to exist as an independent country as long as they allow the Western intelligence services to regulate their communications using these tech services.
What they do is come into your country, get everyone to start using them, then they ban anyone who they don’t like. Then the intelligence services start using the people they do like – i.e., the people that are against national sovereignty – to organize against the country.
Uganda banned Twitter because they were doing exactly this – before an election, they banned all the accounts of the people they didn’t like.
Uganda has banned social media until further notice ahead of Thursday’s presidential election in the country https://t.co/OyfjDvTRjN
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 12, 2021
It’s the same thing that we’ve witnessed in the United States, with the banning of right-wingers and the boosting of pro-establishment information. They do that in every country.
It is absolute lunacy to allow these companies to function in your country.
The only country that is not aligned with the Atlantic Consensus and is still operating normally, without riots, is China. That is because China blocked all of these Western intelligence apparatus “social media” services.
The reason you saw those riots in Hong Kong is because it was the only city in China that didn’t block these services. You’re now seeing kooky riots in Thailand, because they didn’t block these services. All through Latin America, there are feminist riots.
These social media services are incompatible with a free society, period. There is no situation in which that isn’t true.
Russia has to ban these services, and gain sovereignty over their own communications.
Russia doesn’t need to slow Twitter, they need to ban it, and they need to do it quickly.