Steemit.com blocked by russian communication agency
In his epic crusade against Telegram russian communication supervision agency (Roskomnadzor) blocked main Steemit frontend Steemit.com. As for 12:00 UTC steemit.com available through VPN only for the majority of russian ISPs.
Busy.com and other frontends is still working.
RKN blocked more than 30 mln. IPs including Amazon and Google subnets. Many of network services hosted there fall as a collateral damage. Outages spotted in online games including XBox Live and PSN, Mastercard 3DSecure, major internet and even brick-and-mortar retailers.
Telegram itself mostly not affected.
Also
Official letter from russian communication agency to a proxy service provider
To fire a cannon at sparrows...
To fire cannon in just random directions hoping to hit the target.
Why did it happen ?
what's wrong so it should be blocked?
Governemnt doesn't like encryption of telegram. They want to read messages of potential terrorists and other suspects, but they can't do it because telegram protects this data. They've asked telegram CEO to provide a backdore for official to read ,essaging, mr Durov stayed layal to users privacy and human rights.
For now steemit is a collateral damage in the war against telegram.
But it is a matter of time when it will be blocked on purpose. Anybody could say anything about Putin and left unpunished - this is enough reason for blocking.
thank you for your information @bronevik
will this spread to asia?
Easily. We as a community should think about means of avoiding blocks right now. Like simplified lightweight steemit frontend.
Ya, thank you
It's a very stupid thing they did, I use vpn and I still here. Nothing will stop steemit or bitcoin or cryptocurrency !
Какой VPN сервис использовать?
В идеале - свой поднятый вручную на арендованной машине.
Иначе - у всех свое понимание соотношения цена-качество
Да уж создали геморрой. У меня тут образовался круг общения, не хочется от него отказываться.
А хороших бесплатных сервисов нет? Может есть опыт использывания? Я поставил бесплатный Стелс в ГуглХром, сейчас работаю через него, но он тупит конкретно.
Hotspot Shield. Есть триал и freemium.
Спасибо, дружище!
Потестирую, попозже отпишусь о результате.
попрубуйте ''hide my ip''
У меня в Опере встроенный, тыцнул на значок ВПН и работает
Использую чтобы на Яндекс заходить, а то у нас его лочат вместе с Одноклассникамии ВК.
Ага, читала - поржала! Интернет лежит, пострадали все кроме самого Телеграма:-))) Весь мир насмешили, xэx, вояки.
Are they dumb or insane or what?
It is not a "communacation agency". It's a disconnection agency.
Absolutely do not see a problem in situaton of locking this messenger. In its place, instantly there will be 2-3 competitors who will be more accommodating with the authorities.
Still there is an opinion that this is a PR action. Durov, owner of Telegrams is known for his tricks and marginal acts
My company lost 20% of revenue due to blocks of one of our cloud payment systems hosted at AWS.
Totally not a problem.
Yes, this is a sad moment. I agree as well that as long as our government act clumsily
oh!! sad for russian steemians.important post.thanks,@bronevik
For how long this war against 'Freedom of Speach' will last? Telegram, Steemit, Facebook, Google etc.