Google confirms some of its own services blocked in Russia over the Telegram ban

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I'm in Russia now. This morning I got the message on Telegram to throw a paper plane out my window tonight at exactly 7:00 p.m.

Telegram has been working fine here except for a short period right when the block started.

I haven't personally experienced any problems with the internet, but yesterday one of my Russian friends commented that she couldn't log into her Russian bank account because of the banned ip addresses.

Google.com and gmail.com are not working on my side. Even worse, HN search is not working as well! Also on Sat MSDN loaded very slowly. Yesterday it became much better.

Odd, all of those are working fine for me. I went to MSDN just now and it seemed to load slow, but I don't regularly use it so I don't know if anything changed.

Update: voice.google.com doesn't fully load.

I think I will protest by throwing a paper plane out my window at the appointed time this evening.

Update: I threw three paper plans from my flat window at the appointed time. Apparently I was the only one: I didn't notice anyone nearby doing the same.

Sounds like Telegram may be Domain Fronting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting

A previous submission, when the Telegram related IP ban started.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16856509

The Russian federal government has ordered null routes of many chunks of ipv4 space as large as /12, of course this will break a great many non telegram related services.

There goes the whole "too big to block" BS...

Although Durov and Telegram do have rather dubious reputation.

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