What Should Russians Do If VPNs Are Banned?

by BalticsFox

48 comments
  1. Overthrow Putin… but sadly he is still wildly popular, so realistically they will just shut up and accept further restrictions.

  2. Hail the Tsar (Putin). Why eat, breath or even think about freedom? Slavery is a new normal

  3. Celebrate everything they are having in common with North Korea.

  4. Oh, won’t anyone **pleeeeease** think of the Russians?

    Let’s just forget that the Ukrainians are again fighting for their lives because of the Russians and ordinary Ukrainians are lucky if they don’t suffer yet another lengthy power outage caused by a Russian attack on a power station or just get wiped out by a nighttime missile attack on their homes while asleep.

    If the Russians (especially the “good” ones) didn’t bother to get the facts or do honest research with VPN already, a nationwide ban on it won’t move the needle by even a nanometer.

    Are we also to believe that millions of Russians (especially the privileged and “liberal” folk hailing from Moscow and St. Petersburg) have been totally clueless about life outside their precious motherland up to very recently despite working for non-Russian companies, studying abroad or regularly spending their summer vacations in the EU, MENA or SE Asia?

    Ignorance and “propaganda” are no excuses.

  5. Blame the West and keep on serving the mobsters in the Kremlin?

  6. Honestly Russian government cracks down on VPN’s and proxies, but for the outsiders. At the beginning of the war I could visit minfin.ru or fssp.gov.ru with any random web proxy. Now I’d either have to use paid VPN or make my own on a VPS. Wonder how long until these will be blocked.

  7. Burn local police stations and military bases or leave Russia.

  8. Russia doesn’t have the capabilities to ban all VPNs. Even China hasn’t been able to do it and they are a lot more competent technologically than Russia. Unless they want to turn into a complete intranet like North Korea, its not happening.

    Don’t worry, there will still be Russians screaming at you in steam lobbies for some time to come.

  9. I don’t use VPN, it’s basically needed for instagram and twitter(X). Everything else works for us, and without advertising

  10. Take the streets, overthrow the government and end the bloody war in Ukraine?

  11. Doesn’t the west own almost the whole internet infrastructure, as in the sea cables and such? I had the impression that the west (mostly USA) had the capacity to just turn off the outside world network to Russia. If so then you might not even need an VPN in the first place.

  12. Everyone will start using lesser known VPN services that disguise their traffic as something innocent. There is a ton of them.

    When Lukashenko shut down Belarusian Internet in August 9, 2020, our software development company sorted this out in the first 3 working hours.

  13. Rise up and try putin and his cronies for treason, hang them.

  14. They might get.. alternative VPNs? It doesn’t matter what they should do or will do, because absolutely nothing will change. The only thing that will bring about a positive change of any sort in Russia is a Ukrainian victory in the war, that is what the world should be focusing on.

  15. It’d be fantastic if cutting access to porn and CS:GO lobbies by banning vpns was what finally breaks the camel’s back and gets the Russians to overthrow this asshole

  16. VPNs have been banned in other authoritarian countries like China or the UAE… and nothing has happened. Probably the same will be the case in Russia.

  17. It’s hard to ban a VPN but they could issue their own root certificate(s) and require everyone to use it for their traffic. Decrypt traffic on ISP side. All traffic not encrypted with keys from their certificate gets blocked. And voila – you have completely working Internet that is transparent to Russia FSB.
    Certificate pinning can get in the way but that’s users problem.

  18. Use vpn to get to another country where vpns are allowed

  19. I have a bad feeling that this is exactly Trump is going to do once he returns……

  20. Any chance the russian hacker groups will bother us less? I have doubts.

  21. Russians should overthrow the current fascist-oligarchical dictatorship they have first of all.

  22. Killing their political leaders would be worth a try.

  23. What Should they do? Slurp their fucking Shchi from a lapot’

  24. Presumably they will just buy access on the black market.

  25. Fight their government to actually improve their country and have the fun side effect of improving the world.

  26. i couldn’t care less as long as they stay contained in their shithole.

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