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Russia plans Twitter block in one month if it fails to delete banned content

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Dumb question but is this the "Take 2" version of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409132 or is it the same thing / a dupe? 100% not sure since the link says last modified 16 March

we should more use self-hosted / github hosted personal blogs instead of twitter

This is true libertarian way to blog

Github hosted anything suffers from the same problem, obviously. Russian govt. would just pressure github to remove any content they don't want.

And Russia would just ban GitHub, no?

well, then - simple vps servers + eg Flask/ http.server

How do you plan to scale that?

The libertarian way to is to use what-ever you feel like.

Everyone has their standards of propriety. Some things are inappropriate on Twitter, while in some places Twitter itself is inappropriate. I think it's a good lesson.

Russian standards of propriety are very similar to American. Russian government's ones are not, but that's a different story.

>Russian standards of propriety are very similar to American

Yeah.. I invite you to post some pictures of an openly gay relationship on social media and show it to the average Russian and that'll cure you of that illusion.

There is a good song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmEt1sL7GU , "Ours and theirs", by Alexey Ivaschenko and Georgiy Vasiliev, which lists a bunch of differences - which, of course, exist even between pretty close cultures - and, characteristically for authors, concludes with "there are many things which you can't divide on ours and theirs".

It's like talking about ideological divide between USSR and USA - even back in late 1980s it was proclaimed loudly, but nobody came out defending USSR in late 1991. Gay relationships are nothing new in Russia, and official condemnation doesn't mean it runs deeply against cultural grain.

Don't forget - Russian people and Russian government are strongly opposing entities. On the other hand, Russian expats in USA have comparatively little problem adjusting to American culture. Standards are indeed very similar - more so than, for example, in comparison with some Asian or Middle East cultires.

To be fair, much of America responds in a negative way to that already

To be fair, when the Supreme Court handed down the Obergefell decision to grant freedom for same sex marriage, there wasn't an uprising or even a protest that drew any attention. It's an issue that has been accepted by the public at large, even the religious crowd at large.

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