[mlkmt]

anyone knows how Russia limited the access?

[abdullin]

(lived in Russia until 2021, not authorative source of info)

All ISP providers are required to have black boxes installed on-site. These boxes can do traffic shaping (e.g. Twitter is degraded) and basic filtering based on IP addresses. I think, deep packet inspection is also feasible.

Config updates are pushed centrally to these boxes.

Self-managed VPNs still work.

[cutemonster]

What about Tor?

Or if Twitter gets more IP addresses, they'll work for a short while, until black box config updated?

[colinmhayes]

Tor provides degraded access without government intervention.

[orthoxerox]

Tor is for nerds, they don't count. You can't expect regular people to run Tor on their phones.

[cutemonster]

If I ask if there's any place to buy rollerblades nearby, do you think that means I expect everyone to go by rollerblades?

[baybal2]

These ISP blackboxes central command should be a prime target now.