Russia bans most social media we use today, thoughts?

[Ramasta9]

Apparently they have banned, FB, Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter and others. Do you feel its a good thing?

70% of social media today seems garbage for the mind. 

 

[LordFall]

You think they're doing it out of the concern for the mental health of their citizens? They have their own platforms like VK, OK.ru and Telegram. They do it to control the tech platforms their citizens use for maximum tracking and surveillance. Just like China does and how Trump made his own apps. Smart strategy but bad for their citizens. You would hope as a citizen to have access to global communications network and news. 

If China undid their great Chinese firewall it would probably singlehandedly bring down their regime. I believe all these closed systems will soon fall and humankind will unite under one system. Cryptocurrency and blockchains are the start of such a system.  

Edited 11 hours ago by LordFall

[zazen]

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[Leo Gura]

Of course it's not a good thing. It is becoming North Korea.

[zazen]

51 minutes ago, LordFall said:

If China undid their great Chinese firewall it would probably singlehandedly bring down their regime.

Exactly. Information and space warfare are the frontier abstract layers of geopolitics.

Check this article: https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2026/02/washingtons-war-on-iran-importance-of.html

Especailly halfway through under the heading: US Weaponization of Information Space in the 21st Century  

''Throughout the 21st century, the US has deliberately and maliciously weaponized its domination over global information space, specifically through US-based social media platforms like X (formally Twitter), Meta/Facebook, YouTube, Google, Instagram, and many others.''

 

''The US Threat to Global Information Space Requires Global Defense 

The nations of Russia and China have - over the course of many years and through extensive work - secured their respective information space. This has - in turn - allowed both nations to secure and stabilize their political space providing the social harmony required to not only survive ongoing attempts by the US to encircle and contain both global powers, but in many instances to thrive. 

This has been achieved through the creation of domestic alternatives to the US-based social media platforms that otherwise dominate global information space. Both nations have online networks that can be disconnected from Western-influenced information space when and if necessary.

Beyond this, both nations have created domestic pipelines ensuring crucial human resources such as programmers and technicians required to maintain the physical infrastructure of their information space are trained in-country and with the nation’s best interests in mind, as well as the media personnel, government officials, and other civil servants who use each nation’s information space. 

This is not unlike the physical infrastructure built within any sovereign nation. Roads, rail, airports, and seaports are all acknowledged to be integral to national security and thus their construction, maintenance, use, and protection are determined accordingly. 

Unfortunately, many policymakers across the planet have yet to understand that information space in the 21st century is as important - if not more so - than this physical infrastructure or traditional national security domains. 

Allowing the US to not only provide US-based social media platforms to nations rather than nations developing their own, but allowing the US to also control the flow of information and thus ideas and consensus on these platforms is as bad, or worse, than allowing foreign interests to control a nation’s physical borders, infrastructure, and even a nation’s own citizenry.

The cost of surrendering a key - if not the key -  domain of national security to the United States is political infiltration, capture, and even complete collapse as admitted US operations spanning the 21st century from Europe to the Arab World to Asia and back again have sufficiently demonstrated.''

 

 

Of course though its a double edged sword that also allows for domestic control of the population.

 

[Porphyry Fedotov]

59 minutes ago, LordFall said:

You think they're doing it out of the concern for the mental health of their citizens? They have their own platforms like VK, OK.ru and Telegram. They do it to control the tech platforms their citizens use for maximum tracking and surveillance. Just like China does and how Trump made his own apps. Smart strategy but bad for their citizens. You would hope as a citizen to have access to global communications network and news. 

If China undid their great Chinese firewall it would probably singlehandedly bring down their regime. I believe all these closed systems will soon fall and humankind will unite under one system. Cryptocurrency and blockchains are the start of such a system.  

Bro, telegram is also going to be banned starting April 1st. It’s hilarious, but they made one exception for telegram and its frontlines, lol. The Russian government made its own WeChat; it’s called Max, and they’re promoting it everywhere. Max is basically government spyware. 
Also, the ban on social media is part of a broader trend of tightening restrictions that began after the invasion of Ukraine. On that day, freedom of speech in Russia, or rather what was left of it, basically ceased to exist.

[Vynce]

I‘m interested to see how future proof Russia actually is. 
 

Easy to assume from a western perspective that they just regress to become medieval again. But they are not dumb.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

I think it is a sign of desperation and a lack of stability of the regime. Otherwise I think they'd have implemented this a long time ago

[LordFall]

@zazen Sure but keep in mind western platforms are freeer than their counterparts you can't compare them on equal footing. Libertarianism and the freedom of the individual against the repression of the collective is most alive in the united states over any other nation on earth as far as I'm aware. To the point where it's detrimental to themselves but the US can stand on moral high ground in terms of calling out repression in pretty much any other nation state. 

@Vynce You cannot keep your country isolated in the 21st century nor could you ever really. Isolationist policies will be crushed by alternatives once they come forth. Soon America will start exporting its AI agents that can run without an internet connection and contain the whole internet within them in a $50 device and this will eventually bring down any sort of internet firewall the russian, chinese and north korean included. Our species will be united before the turn of the century. Our incentives towards unity are much greater than towards mutual destruction or even a prolonged cold war situation. 

 

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, LordFall said:

Soon America will start exporting its AI agents that can run without an internet connection and contain the whole internet within them in a $50 device and this will eventually bring down any sort of internet firewall

Russia is blocking people from organizing against Putin. That's why these bans exist. AI will not solve that.

[JTL]

@Leo Gura hey not related to this thread, but about the iran war. Do you have any opinions on it you want to share, on your blog or somewhere else. I think  the u.s/gop is the most grave threat to human devlopemted right now. They are threating and strong arming the hold world. feel a bit depressed because of all this, because liberalism seems to be useless agianst facism. is Iran as bad as people say?   

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[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, JTL said:

Do you have any opinions on it you want to share,

You know my opinions on how bad Trump is. The only thing left now is to suck it up for 4 years. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Now Americans must endure the consequences of their ignorant voting behavior. I have stopped worrying about it or even following the news.

[LordFall]

@Leo Gura That's why crypto and blockchains exist to transact outside of a locked national currency system and there are many ways for savy people to get around tech bans like VPNs, Proxies and TOR network. AI gives the average person leverage against state run institutions. An organization of 20 people running $10K of hardware and AI tools can have the impact of a previously $1B organization in narrow focuses I believe.