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by chronicsonic 1079 days ago
Wonder if the fact that they’re related to NATO, who is at war, have anything to do with it.
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Nato is not at war.
I can think of a country currently at war that has a much more aggressive and longer history of being a bad actor on the internet than NATO countries...
Can you elaborate on this a bit?
Don't know how Finland's government deal with Ukraine/Russian agenda, but here in Czechia, government acts like totalitarian authority. Blames Putin for every economical problems (there is official guide how to propagate problems with food shortage [1]), they block on DNS level (cz.nic) some websites that, according to government, spread Russian propaganda [2] and also announced that supporting Russian invasion is crime by law and Russia is terrorist state.

No wonder, that Tor users in Czechia rised over 60% since 2020, when government use totalitarian practices like state that they trying to fight against.

Also overall trust in government is historical low here. 74% citizens disapprove what government does here. [3] Which does not mean that we approve invasion on Ukraine at all. We host far more Ukrainian refugees as we should - over 500 000 which is 5% of Czechia population [4].

[1] https://www.mvcr.cz/soubor/krit-memo-putin-hlad-komunikacni-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_survei...

[3] https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/global-leader-approv...

[4] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine