In other news, Discord was still doing business in Russia... Cool
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/russia-bans-discord/
Just seven days ago, Reuters reported that Russia had ordered approximately 1,000 items to be deleted from Discord and Google, including posts “containing...LGBT propaganda..:”
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Servers tagged with:
LGBTQ+: 61597
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And that was only one category they objected to.
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that that probably wasn't gonna be a winnable war for the Russian government.
Hol up, Kagi is indexing discord servers?
No, that's from some "disboard.org" service that I linked to. I just used Kagi to find that page.
Ahh OK that makes sense thanks
So ... how mad at Putin does this make Russian gamers? Mad at all? Do they care?
There are an estimated 30-40 million users is Russia, with the majority being men age 25-34. The overall goal is likely to criminalize it so they can be forced to enter military service or go to jail.
criminalize it so they can be forced to enter military service or go to jail
Sorry if I've missed something obvious, but how does Discord being legal or not in any way influence conscription policies which ALREADY carried join-or-go-to-jail, enforced by the people who have the guns?
Like, I'm not seeing the relationship.
The mandatory conscription for men age 18-30 only lasts one year. This can force them back into military service and be used to enhance selective enforcement against dissidents.
Ah that makes a lot more sense: I had just assumed conscription was quite a lot longer than just a year for some reason.
It's certainly a good target if you wanted to criminalize the group of people you want to conscript since the overlap is probably pretty much 100%.
They let criminals out of jail and send them to the meat grinder
It's fine, they use Dropbox to share classified info on the world of tanks forums
Kinda mad, but this won't make them go on a Kremlin. I don't know what will.
Would still be way way worse if Steam got blocked.
Source: Russian gamer, talking to other Russian gamers
Oh well it's already a better app. without them.