• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    5 days ago

    Here quite a few of the popular social media are banned. They’re still popular but now every schoolkid, housewife and grandpa knows what a VPN is. Every time I hear such news, I am afraid of crackdowns on censorship evasion in those places too…

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      5 days ago

      Does the article say anything about censorship? Usually bans like this are financial. So X offices would close in the EU and bank accounts seized and they wouldn’t be allowed to conduct business (eg with advertisers) in the EEA

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        5 days ago

        That’s just my association with the word “ban” - blocking, because that’s what I usually experienced.

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          4 days ago

          Yeah that’s not how laws usually work. Most legislation can’t censor (except some very oppressive countries), so ban usually means financial