"Cut down in one fell": the Russian Federation has broken the connection of its troops by blocking Discord - WP
It is reported that this decision, declared by the Internet regulator "Roskomnadzor", emphasizes the flashy technological gap in the army of the Russian Federation. In more than 2. 5 years of the war, it could not introduce a safe, reliable Russian communication system, relying on private platforms, such as Discord and Telegram. The material states that the ban also resumed a wider debate about how the Russian bureaucratic machine continues to disrupt the military efforts of its army in Ukraine.
Russian troops, many of which have a direct connection with the units fighting in Ukraine, ridiculed this step. They stated that the bureaucratic decision to block Discord caught the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation by surprise and left them without proper connection. "It was necessary to create a replacement and warn commanders about plans so that work on the front was simply not interrupted at once," - quoted journalists of one of the military.
The journalists noted the Discord was created to give gamers and cyber transportation a reliable voice and textual communication platform for game sessions. Its key functions, such as stable flow transmission between large groups of people and the possibility of sharing screens, have proved to be useful for people who play first -person team teams and other dynamic games.
"From a military point, the main problem of discord ban is not even that some team points may be left without broadcasting from drones," said Russian propagandist Mikhail Zinchuk in his channel in Telegram "Rybar". According to him, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation does not seek to give the troops a single alternative. However, similar systems that could use the military were developed in Russia, but the Ministry of Defense did not include them in daily operation.
The propagandist stated that the command of the Russian troops will use existing Western commercial services, because it is necessary to "fight somehow". "And then everything develops in a familiar scenario: bureaucrats suddenly understand that the servers of these programs - what coincidence - located in NATO countries, and data flow into the network where they should not get. ", - the militarycock wrote.
Journalists noted that Roskomnadzor, who has been conducting a "crusade for many years" for banning Western online platforms and creating a "sovereign Internet", reported that access to Discord was limited to preventing the use of messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes, recruiting citizens to commit them, selling drugs, as well as in connection with the placement of some "illegal information" there.
The newspaper says that Google, Apple and other large companies have been conducting trials with Russian authorities for many years, even after many of them have curtailed their activities in the Russian Federation after a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. Some Russian officials supported this decision, praising Roskomnadzor for his irreconcilable position on Western IT products.
"It is a signal to all foreign IT companies that sooner or later our regulators will end with the patience and desire to negotiate,"-said the member of the Committee on Information Policy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Anton Nemkin. Nemkin stated that Discord is dangerous for Russia, as criminals register there and "actively recruit young people for illegal purposes.
" Many legislators in the Russian Federation have made statements that asked the regulatory body to review the decision to restrict access to Discord. "Indeed, foreign companies providing telecommunications services are often a very optional approach to Russian laws. However, prohibition measures seem to be no optimal policy," the CPRF member Denis Parfyonov said.