I am not fixated on the app, but on the fact that the current regime has banned it, not to mention jailing the popular head to the movement behind it. They even raided Google's Moscow office to make sure that it was removed. It's not about my fixation. It's about Putin's fixation. If he is so popular, why would he bother?
I don't know. You have to ask NBC, ABC, and CBS. Did they bother to distribute their signal in Russia?. If I really wanted to have their signal
I would have asked you for you to share your account with me or even buy one officially
It's internet TV nowdays,
But I can see their website with whatever they publish there and youtube foir free. I am not in China or North Korea.
And even in China I think one can buy satellite dish and say "Fuck you, Xi!"
The Chinese use VPN. None of this has anything to do with signals. It has to do with IP addresses, and you should be able to reach any IP address with a connection to the Internet. None of those media outlets do anything except publish their DNS addresses on the internet.
No, you don't understand. I was talking about basically "cable" TV from state owned company called Rostelecom.
If you buy internet from them then they can offer you TV subscription with selection of about ~1000 channels (including adult channels). And the minimum default set (~$2/month
) includes CNN/BBC/French/German/Japanese/Belarus and probably few other news channels. You can buy that subscription in US too I think.
I mean you don't need to buy their internet access. Some channels are free for all their users even without subscription. I can't tell how many are free but standard, over the air channels are certainly free. basically if You have internet you don't need ordinary TV antenna.
VPN is not banned and is not really needed for the most part, because Russia does not ban google/facebook and other global companies. The only company which is banned is LinkedIn, I bet you are surprised
Yes, they try to ban certain youtube channels and lift google bans from others. Recently youtube banned RT in Germany and some russian propaganda channel (in russian)
If you can't get something, it is likely a problem with your government blocking access to an address.
Incorrect, most of the time it's problem with your companies. for example, I can't get target.com and some other sites which decided to cut traffic outside of US. For them I have to use free proxies. they maintain official list of domains or even particular pages which are currently banned. Most of them are torrent and porn websites. That's not to say that porn is banned. it's just some people report some websites as child porn or something harmful and then court quickly bans them without even checking.
The Chinese have the same problem that Russians do in terms of the ruling regime trying to block or limit access to DNS sites.
Not the same. And what is DNS site? DNS server? or domain?
Until now, most Chinese who were internet savvy were able to use a VPN to get around local restrictions on access, but their government has been cutting off that access as much as possible.
I think that the same is happening in your country, not to mention many other countries around the world. Constraining access to information is of key importance to autocratic governments.
You are awfully misinformed. Cat is out of the bag, there is nothing russian government can do. All they can do is to put fines on google&Co in order to compel them to behave. Banning google is out of the question.
CNN (international) is aired as is, but without normal adds, sometimes they leak though.
Yes, but that is quite normal. Even on a cruise ship, you don't get the ads. They are normally restricted to local internet domains, since sponsors don't want to pay for access to markets where they don't sell their products.
I was interested in your honest opinion of whether you thought such apps ought to be banned. You seem to have bought into the idea that it is a bad thing in a free election, but the opposite is true in a real election. All sides should be free to take measures to rally their voting base. The United Russia certainly is.
I gave you my honest opinion the first time it came out. It was banned because it was perceived as a threat to manipulate hordes of 18-30 year olds into actually voting. According to current model, only people above 50 and especially above 70 are supposed to vote because they watch state TV and know who to vote for
Sorry, but I must have missed the post where you made that comment. I understand that you are being sarcastic and somewhat fatalistic about the situation you face in Russia. The problem that we've been having is that it isn't always easy to tell when you are being sarcastic and when you are being sincere. The point is that everyone should have equal access to the polls in both Russia and the US, if democracy is to work. The situation isn't perfect in either country, but I think that it is still vastly better in the US, even with some of these idiotic laws passed in red states to suppress Democratic votes. Those laws can have an impact in very close elections, as they did in 2016 and subsequent election cycles. However, they don't really do much to overturn a majority vote in elections that are not close, which is why Joe Biden overwhelmed Trump in both the popular and electoral vote counts.
The best thing you can do is to stop being easy target for Russian propaganda with the nonsense you have. I mean being better example of democracy.
You need to read russian version of the article.
