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I'm not a fan of blocking things on the internet, but this seems like a good move for them. If your people aren't going to perform SecOps, then you need to. I

• gragas 9y ago
  "If my people aren't going to support me, I'm going to make them support me."
• vivekd 9y ago
  HNers will mass downvote and throw vitriol at anything that doesn't mean complete freedom of the internet all the time no matter what the cost. It's like a religious dogma to these guys, complete digital freedom no matter what the cost or consequence, practical considerations be damned. And like any fundamentalist religious dogma, those who question it are punished. But for ordinary society, I think most people realize that having your enemy control your media is a terrible, terrible idea that will mean almost certain defeat in wartime. Ukraine realizes that complete free internet all the time is not worth losing a war with Russia over, and I say power to them.
• konart 9y ago
  If you check ukrainian conflict subreddit or some of the Facebooks accounts of the volunteers you will find out that they were actively using VK to track their enemies (army and mercenaries from Russia) and to communicate with "sympathisers" from Russia. Anyway - now they will post them on Facebook - what does it change? It is an open info regardless.
• marichards 9y ago
  And what metadata was included?