Tell HN: Russians may soon lose access to the global internet

Small correction: authoritarianism requires using hypernationalism / ultranationalism to isolate people from external sources of information, in order for propaganda and censorship to be effective.

Which is indeed the motive behind so-called "splinternet" efforts, such as this.

you need secure channels of communication (and preferably a connection to the outside world) to solve any problem

perhaps, there's still hope i think:

- roskomnadzor just not being competent enough to implement the block fully

- they'll reserse the block, since it will likely completely cripple everything that relies on the internet (which is basically everything nowadays)

- they won't go through with the ban completely, since if they do, their job is sort of done, and they want to continue to exist to make money off of the digital infrastructure required to implement the block, and they'll just continue playing this game of cat and mouse

- outside internet connectivity will likely remain to some degree, it'll just be very slow and probably expensive, but i really struggle to see a country like Russia being completely cut off from the internet in the year of our lord 2026

i could be wrong, who knows, after all this whole situation is unprecedented, and human ingenuity sort of always finds a way

and in a somewhat positive note, mobile internet has come back today and the blocks are bypassable with a regular vpn now, even ones that aren't being hosted on whitelisted subnets

This will not work for two reasons:

1. Thanks to the sanctions, it is virtually impossible for RF citizens to purchase anything abroad with Russian credit cards.

2. VPN was design not to obfuscate but to encrypt - that is, the protocol doesn't conceal the fact that VPN channel is being used, you just cannot peek into the content in this channel. Which means that more and more sophisticated tools are being used to block VPN communications.

> Rent a VPS in another country and set up your own personal VPN server on it, and no one will be able to block you.

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How would this ever work with a whitelist? did you even read the post?

read the post please, the precise problem is that this may soon not work