The hottest take on Russia's hilariously bad attempts to block Telegram over the last two days.
@Takanu I've found stuff reporting that they're doing it, but nothing saying how well it is or isn't working. Curious: What's going wrong?
@qwertystop I don't know the specifics, only that Telegram is using Amazon AWS servers to ensure the service is still available in Russia. I'd assume they may also be doing some other shenanigans on the side.
As far as i'm aware, they haven't been able to successfully block it as of yet.
@Takanu Ah. I saw one article that mentioned that (and Google servers), but it went on to say that Russia was responding by blocking swathes of Google and Amazon IPs. Gave the general impression of success-with-collateral, rather than easily-dodged-giant.
@qwertystop Oh yeah, their blocks have taken down online games, local online retailers, other messaging app services and payment authentication services.
It's a mess \o/