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A Russian ISP confirms Roskomnadzor’s Twitter-blocking blooper

reader comments 42 with 30 posters participating, including story author Share this story This is https://speed.gulag.link/, a speedtest application that demonstrates Roskomnadzor throttling to Russian users it impacts. Jim Salter This is the Google-translated version of the gulag.link screenshot to the left. Jim Salter Last night, a confidential source at a Russian ISP contacted Ars… Read More »

Russian attempt to throttle Twitter appears to backfire

Enlarge / The head of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), Andrei Lipov, during a meeting with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, at the Moscow Kremlin. Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS (Photo by Alexei NikolskyTASS via Getty Images) reader comments 61 with 52 posters participating, including… Read More »