Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> Tests Cutting Off Access to Global Web, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VPNs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPNs</span></a> Can't Get Around It"</p><p><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/russia-tests-cutting-off-access-to-global-web-and-vpns-cant-get-around" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pcmag.com/news/russia-tests-cu</span><span class="invisible">tting-off-access-to-global-web-and-vpns-cant-get-around</span></a></p><p>Now that it has lost <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> is preparing for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> following it home </p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Roskomnadzor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roskomnadzor</span></a> blocked residents in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dagestan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dagestan</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chechnya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chechnya</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ingushetia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ingushetia</span></a>, which have majority-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Muslim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Muslim</span></a> populations, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ISW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISW</span></a> says... People in those areas couldn't access <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telegram</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a>, or other foreign websites or apps—even if they used <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> s, according to a local <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> news site"</p>