Discord now blocked in Russia and Turkey
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Today, Russia and Turkey have banned Discord from their countries. Using the premise of “digital sovereignty,” Russian regulators have been making significant moves against the unfettered flow of information on the internet. Their latest target is Discord, a messaging platform that is popular in Russia, with an estimated 30-40 million users, contributing to about 4% of Discord’s global traffic.
For Turkey, the news follows a story whereby messages praising a 19-year-old man who murdered two women on Oct 4 were shared on other social media platforms and following concerns about grooming, blackmail, and “cyberbullying.”
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Russia has added Steam to the register of banned sites, - rosZMI.
https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1843702434285400189
Not a great week for Russian gamers.
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I think that Discord will concessions to privacy of user from Russia / Turkey and will start transmitting user data for government requests.
It's time to clean up chats – thanks to https://redact.dev (they made free premium plan).
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@maximvasiljev Thankfully while Discord does have it's pits of crime and filth, it isn't the same as Telegram.
Discord is already a moderated service, and lawful requests are already processed.While the issue is presented as the usual "think of the children", the issue comes from Governments not wanting to have to first find a group they don't like, no matter what the group is.
They can't risk that dissent proliferates before they find it.
In social media systems with closed private groups that can't be scanned from outside, this is a problem. -
I use Discord only because of Andi and ShareX support, which as alternative only offer Facebook or X, which is worse.
Anyway not a good site for general chats (TOS;DR Grade E).
Users in Russia and Turkey for sure will continue use it with VPN or Snowflake.
@maximvasiljev,...It's time to clean up chats – thanks to https://redact.dev (they made free premium plan).
ironically with support on Discord.
