The Vice Speaker of the State Duma, the deputy from the New People party Vladislav Davankov promised to appeal to Roskomnadzor with a request to revise the decision to block the Discord messenger. He wrote about this in his telegram channel.
“According to Mediascope, in Russia from 25 to 40 million people use a discord. It is useful for students and teachers of tutors in online schools. In terms of functionality, it can adequately replace either Yandex.Topelost, nor VK messenger, or any other domestic product, ”he said.
According to Davankov, "at such a pace in the country there will soon be no social networks and services available without VPN." He noted that during his meetings with students, 95% of them say that they are already using it.
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“With the Internet, you need to be able to work, and not forbid everything in a row. Without competition, we will never have our counterparts-and we will become a country of winning VPN, ”the vice speaker summed up.
On the eve of the State Duma, they called Discord lock “signal to other Western IT companies”. This was said by RIA Novosti by a member of the Duma Committee on Inform Policy Anton Nemkin. According to him, "patience and desire to negotiate."
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The day before, thousands of Russian users reported the impossibility of connecting to Discord without VPN. Roskomnadzor later announced that the messenger was blocked "for violation of Russian legislation." The department added that representatives of the messenger ignored the demands of the Russian authorities to remove hundreds of materials containing “illegal information”, and also stated that the site was used “for terrorist and extremist purposes” to recruit crimes and drug sales.
After that, plots were published on the air of propaganda television channels, which said that Discord “thought about like gamers, and became an anonymous community for criminals”, which is “actively used by drug mafia”.
The next day, the authorities of Turkey announced the blocking of Discord. The court was made by the court in Ankara, and the Minister of Justice Yilmaz Tuncha explained that the site was used to spread prohibited information containing "sexual violence against children and obscene content."
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