Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server

CyberTailor@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 112 points –
The registry of blocked websites
reestr.rublacklist.net

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14155096

Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.

Shortly after refusal to comply with agency's demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.

All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.

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Wait, do people genuinely defend moves like this?

Of course! They say they do it to protect themselves against Capitalist Corruption!

This is on .ml, so I'm sure we'll see some of it shortly. Or this post disappears out of a window.

The next step of evolution from "leave the multi billion company alone"

If people defend Nintendo when they shut down yuzu you will definitely find a few idiots that will worship a government of any kind

They do and I fucking cringe when they call themselves lefties.

They don't. I cringe when people lie about Hexbear.

From hexbear

That's the different kind of lefties. I am talking about tankies that think that Russia and China are socialist states that fight the big imperialist