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Maybe the goal of the Russian government was to block the Amazon and Google APIs in the first place, and they used Telegram as a convenient excuse. Just a thoug
by tici_88 8y ago
Maybe the goal of the Russian government was to block the Amazon and Google APIs in the first place, and they used Telegram as a convenient excuse. Just a thought.
- gruez 8y agoso basically what china's doing
- pushpankar 8y agoYour thought is out of the box.
- Keloo 8y agoUsually Russia don't play that smart. Wondering how would they replace those services.
- adventured 8y agoIt would actually seem like an ideal way to force the adoption of native cloud service replacements (regardless of quality or competitiveness of the offering). Russia has tended to go that way with most things, whether Mail.ru, VK or Yandex. Russia has a very long history of being insular like that and the powers that have dominated Russia the last century have a vested interest in keeping it that way.
- y_molodtsov 8y agoI wouldn't say the Russian government cares a lot about its main players, like Chinese do. Actually, they've spent millions building Sputnik — a government owned search engine that nobody used. If they were just being protectionist, I'd be able to understand them in some way. But it's deeper.
- chupasaurus 8y agoThe only reason why local hosters are making money is local personal data law which restricts that PD of russian citizen should be stored inside Russia, because their prices and level of service is non-competitive to i.e. DO or OVH.