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The article seems to hint that the block is made by Russian government, not from Twitter themselves, is there any way of confirming this either way? The title here on HN is a bit unclear as well if the block is made by Twitter or if the block is made by Russia.

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This doesn't directly answer your question, but yesterday Roskomnadzor[1] has announced that they would "partially block" Facebook in Russia [2, 3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervisio...

[2] https://www.rbc.ru/politics/25/02/2022/6219031a9a7947cb20dce...

[3] I was going to provide a direct link but Roskomnadzor's site appears to be down at the moment... lol

Russian authorities, they realise how badly it is going, scared of an informed populace.

The handful of independent media that are still allowed to exist in Russia all got a written warning this morning requiring them to use the term "special operation" and not "war", "attack" or "invasion".

[1] https://www.rosbalt.ru/russia/2022/02/26/1946076.html

It works. Russian commenter on HN used those exact same terms, so people really start to think in them.

> scared of an informed populace

So why block twitter?

Haha, indeed. I do not get informed on either Twitter or Facebook. Everyone is an expert there in everything, and 99% is bullshit.

Twitter has been a great source of information during this invasion. There are a few lists of reliable journalists that produce content around the clock.

It seems very unlikely that Twitter would block a whole country, particularly in the middle of a crisis like this.

No official info from Roscomnadzor, and I wouldn't expect them to be shy about announcing it (in fact they already throttled twitter a few months ago).

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