Is this done to avoid Russian censorship? If so, interesting that Twitter's move is to go out of their way so they can still do business with Russians, while most other companies have decided that the correct choice is to sever all ties.
I'm not affiliated with Twitter, nor do I use it, by the way.
I think this is true regardless of what they do with the information. Malice aside, I don't think freedom of information needs to necessarily serve another group's interest to be a worthy cause.
This is much more aligned with Twitter’s push for decentralization.
Of course one could argue russian trolls could use this to influence opinions on twitter as well, but wouldn't the most scary thing for Putin be his Russians getting non-state approved information on the war and the situation in Russia?
If the goal of sanctions is to drive a wedge between the political leadership and it's population, and we assume it works in principle, excluding certain platforms where people can get outside informations might actually be a good thing.
>"According to OONI, it wasn't all of Russia blocking Tor; it was 15 out of 65 subnets. Moreover, each censorship instance used a different blocking method"
>"If the censorship was government-sponsored, as the Tor Project suggested, then I would expect it to be much more widespread and consistent. This looks like individual blocking efforts. As OONI noted, the blocks followed a "recent spike in the use of Tor bridges (used for circumventing Tor blocking) in Russia."
Though the situation might be totally different now considering the recent events.
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