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Yeah there was this post on here yesterday "Here comes the tiktok war" presuming there was going to be all this media spraying out on socials but then there was

Yeah there was this post on here yesterday "Here comes the tiktok war" presuming there was going to be all this media spraying out on socials but then there was just nothing. All the gawkers are asking "huh? Is this war even real?" then I see apparently Russia blocked twitter (and presumably other sites) on all the ISPs around there - https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1497523148362862593 https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1497523148362862593

AnonymousPlanet 5y ago
Somehow I have the impression that Russia has dropped the mask and doesn't feel it's necessary to pretend anymore.
dade_ 5y ago
Ukraine (and everyone else on this planet) needs to counter Putin’s constant barrage of misinformation. There are lessons here for all of us. ‘I need ammunition, not a ride’: Zelensky declines US evacuation offer, while Russian media announces he left the country: https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497257833095733252?s=20&t=OYzs9R27eJnVg8G4PTIusg https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497257833095733252?s=20... And tell the story of how the war is actually being conducted: https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1497008826201124870?s=20&t=OYzs9R27eJnVg8G4PTIusg https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1497008826201124870...
pjc50 5y ago
I believe a lot of the media is getting taken down - the bot/partisan armies are reporting it as offensive, and a large enough volume of reports inevitably gets things removed. There was an article on here yesterday about "banned from youtube for watching a livestream of the conflict".
zuminator 5y ago
That's an efficient short term solution to their war on information control, but it's really just a delay. The problem for them is the sheer ubiquity of devices which can still record without access to the internet, and then be taken to regions where they can reconnect to the world and spill their secrets. People have come to expect the basic ability to communicate on a level that our forbears scarcely dreamed of. "A well connected Community, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Phones, shall not be infringed."
- eru 5y ago
  I would hope that if any constitution of any country gets a right to bear phones baked into it, they won't take the incredibly confusing wording of the second amendment of the US constitution as their role model.
  - zuminator 5y ago
    Good point!
  - rhino369 5y ago
    A well regulated social network being necessary for a free state, the right to keep and bear phones shall not be infringed. What isn't clear about that :)
  - kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
    Agreed, or else you'll get people clamoring for the government to control the phone industry because they misinterpreted the period meaning of "regulated" (that is, definition 2 here[1] not definition 1) [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regulate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regulate
vbezhenar 5y ago
yurish 5y ago
No, twitter is working fine right now
soared 5y ago
There is a ton of media/livestreams/etc if you're in the right places. r/combatfootage, twitter, various livestreams on youtube/twitch/etc, telegram, etc.

AnonymousPlanet 5y ago

Somehow I have the impression that Russia has dropped the mask and doesn't feel it's necessary to pretend anymore.

dade_ 5y ago

Ukraine (and everyone else on this planet) needs to counter Putin’s constant barrage of misinformation. There are lessons here for all of us. ‘I need ammunition, not a ride’: Zelensky declines US evacuation offer, while Russian media announces he left the country: https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497257833095733252?s=20&t=OYzs9R27eJnVg8G4PTIusg https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497257833095733252?s=20... And tell the story of how the war is actually being conducted: https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1497008826201124870?s=20&t=OYzs9R27eJnVg8G4PTIusg https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1497008826201124870...

pjc50 5y ago

I believe a lot of the media is getting taken down - the bot/partisan armies are reporting it as offensive, and a large enough volume of reports inevitably gets things removed. There was an article on here yesterday about "banned from youtube for watching a livestream of the conflict".

zuminator 5y ago

That's an efficient short term solution to their war on information control, but it's really just a delay. The problem for them is the sheer ubiquity of devices which can still record without access to the internet, and then be taken to regions where they can reconnect to the world and spill their secrets. People have come to expect the basic ability to communicate on a level that our forbears scarcely dreamed of. "A well connected Community, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Phones, shall not be infringed."

eru 5y ago
I would hope that if any constitution of any country gets a right to bear phones baked into it, they won't take the incredibly confusing wording of the second amendment of the US constitution as their role model.
- zuminator 5y ago
  Good point!
- rhino369 5y ago
  A well regulated social network being necessary for a free state, the right to keep and bear phones shall not be infringed. What isn't clear about that :)
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
  Agreed, or else you'll get people clamoring for the government to control the phone industry because they misinterpreted the period meaning of "regulated" (that is, definition 2 here[1] not definition 1) [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regulate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regulate

vbezhenar 5y ago

yurish 5y ago

No, twitter is working fine right now

soared 5y ago

There is a ton of media/livestreams/etc if you're in the right places. r/combatfootage, twitter, various livestreams on youtube/twitch/etc, telegram, etc.