Head of Russia’s Human Rights Council admits banning VPNs is “impossible”
Attempting to block all VPNs would disrupt businesses and banks
The official still condemned citizens using VPNs to access blocked media
Europe be like… liar we going to try anyway.
Canada too
I’ll go ahead and file that one under “Yeah, no shit lol”
That won’t stop republicans in Utah from trying though. They’ll figure it out eventually.
Orly? You don’t say.
The sooner UK PLC gets this into their thick, ideological skulls the better. 👀
And Utah.
If anything is impossible, it’s Utah having any sense. They started out as a cult, and they still follow it
If you’d seen the original statement in Russian, you’d realize this person has no idea what they are talking about at all, and with their job title, the purpose of it is just to present some kinda more liberal viewpoint for appearance.
And yes, it’s possible, Iran and North Korea are doing it, and there are plenty of countries with heavy censorship and regulation, and there’s a piece of good engineering advice I once got - “you get to your goal faster if you don’t pick up boss fights”, meaning that while it’s cool for a commenter on the Web to imagine them taking the hardest and most expensive path to solving the problem of censorship and control, they have different choices.
Russia has become very good in blocking all kinds of VPN and even obfuscated VPN traffic.
My Russian friend is currently using VLESS to bypass the Deep Packet Inspection and it seems very promising.
It doesn’t work for the West because it relies on hiding behind CDNs like Cloudflare. If the West prohibits VPNs the governments in the West will cooperate with them.
Russia could also catch them by tracking known VPN users. The unpopular CDN urls to which they connect are very likely the VPNs. They can block those connections and observe the reaction. Russia could also just buy the VPN service and know the target servers. Like adblockers for youtube, they accept escapes for the technological advanced to prevent them from taking other actions.
Duh
really? russia cant stop it? perhaps this is good news for the people of the world that if a nation like russia cant stop it then that might bode well for the rest of us in dire conditions where we might need it.
