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I wasn't able to find anything about Russia throttling Twitter, Facebook etc. in the early 2000s, in order to stifle or control competition. Absence of evidence

I wasn't able to find anything about Russia throttling Twitter, Facebook etc. in the early 2000s, in order to stifle or control competition. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but I couldn't find anything about it. Russia has throttled access to Twitter, listing pretty silly reasons, when really it was because they were in a lawsuit over Twitter not removing content they found objectionable. Here's a source for that: https://freedomhouse.org/country/russia/freedom-net/2021 https://freedomhouse.org/country/russia/freedom-net/2021

ivan_gammel 5y ago
Facebook founded in 2003 and got its name in 2004. Wasn’t noticeable in Russia until 2010s, was cloned and outcompeted by VK. Still popular only because Vk is now controlled by government (VK is simply a better platform). Twitter was founded in 2006, so in the early 2000s it simply did not exist. Has never been a big thing in Russia, even when Medvedev got an account. Government started paying any attention to social networks only after Medvedev was elected (or was that actually LiveJournal?), but I’m not sure they were taking it seriously until 2012, when Bolotnaya happened.