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1. thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 09:39:08 EDT thurloat 📌

   Russia trying to shut down Telegram blocked AWS and Google IPs, effectively blocking russians from half the hosted internet.

   Please, tell me again why centralized mega services are good for the internet.

   Gmail, AWS, Cloudflare, Github, Twitter, Facebook.

   Any one of those services gets fucked with and there are massive problems. This is a massive problem.

   1. Modern Industrial (modernindustrial@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 09:49:48 EDT Modern Industrial

      in reply to

      @thurloat Alternative interpretation: strength in numbers. Privacy-enhancing apps can't get blocked (by IP anyway) if running on same infrastructure as everything else.

      1. thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 09:53:49 EDT thurloat 📌

         in reply to

         @Modern_Industrial 'cept that isn't protecting citizens in Russia right now, their access to global press, and local businesses are suffering collateral damage for a political decision to shut down a chat program.

      2. thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 09:57:58 EDT thurloat 📌

         in reply to

         @Modern_Industrial I do agree that it's harder to issue a takedown stealthily when you're in with a massive crowd.

         I guess it comes down to whether the one swinging the hammer cares that you're in a crowd, or not.