When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.

When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.

Credit cards that won’t buy a ticket on public transport. ATMs that don’t connect to a network. Messaging apps that are down. Cellphones that don’t receive texts or data after a trip abroad. Mothers of diabetic children even complain with alarm that they can’t monitor their kids’ blood glucose levels during outages.

  • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Poor Russians their apps don’t work. At least they don’t have missiles and drones attacking their civilian infrastructure and indiscriminately. If this is the worst inconvenience for them, they need a taste of what Ukraine has been enduring.