There are multiple reports that the Wagner group are deployed in force inside Ukraine, so it’s not a matter of if - it’s when (or now).
Can/has Valve shut off access to Steam?
They just turn the valve.
vyshka
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Moscow correspondent for the Guardian:
@KevinC can I get a ruling on the Guardian?
Seems pretty ballsy of Armenia to take part, but they are quite likely on Putin’s bucket list.
No idea man. They should. Russia wants to behave like maniacs, we should take away all their toys.
No more video games, no more porn, no more streaming video. You want it back? Get rid of the maniac in charge. Play nice with the rest of the world.
This feels like something the collective Twitter outrage mob could accomplish. Pressure these companies to stop doing business with Russia until the invasion ends.
“Russia has lost a record 378 billion dollars to a bitcoin wallet heist”
Really teed that one up, didn’t I.
I’m not sure I have ever seen a country locked out of the world-stage so quickly… especially a modern power.
We must be talking weeks before basic supplies become a challenge for most folks.
pyrhic
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that tweet just makes me want to say “STRELLA!!” in the most streetcar way possible…
KevinC
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Haha, I’m no arbiter of what is a good or a bad source, I was just familiar with the Daily Mail’s reputation. AFAIK The Guardian is reliable as a news source?
I sure hope I didn’t come across like a threadcop earlier, that wasn’t my intention at all. My intent was just to be informative. :) If it seemed like I was being an annoying thread cop, I’d like to apologize!
Short of cutting the fiber optic cables, it seems VPNs would get around most of this, right?
vyshka
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No not at all. I’m not sure which ones are great really.
The Guardian is about as reputable as it gets.
The Daily Fail is not. :)
jsnell
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It’s extremely unlikely that any of Google’s free services would be blocked by Google. I’m pretty sure they don’t do that e.g. for Iran. (They might get blocked by Russia themselves though). Blocking services like Gmail would just mean that Russians need to use Russian services for communication, which would just be playing into the hands of the security services by making life harder for dissidents.
Anything involving money (in either direction) is likely gone though.
I dunno. Are the VPN service providers going to keep accepting connections from Russia? Can they even bill for their services?
I don’t know that you would look at it like “taking part.” Two pilots and some cabin crew land, the plane gets cycled, before that the lessor of the plane did the work to prove ownership, and they don’t let the crew back on board. Put them on the next boat to Russia, pop in your Irish pilot, and have it flown home. I doubt the pilots said “boo” when it happened, they certainly don’t own the plane.
Maybe 5% of the population, optimistically, knows what a VPN is.
But that would change if it were the only way to connect to the rest of the world.
Dejin
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Tweeter is Reuters journalist
Here it is! It was an article about a tweet I saw
Looks like this dude, Minister of Digital Transformation, is way ahead of me
