OMG that site… 🤮
They could do that right now, but their priority seems to be different. NK controls its people’s Internet use by controlling their devices, in Russia that boat has sailed, 35% of people have a desktop or laptop, 85% have Internet access via uncontrolled devices.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 3 days ago
The ship has not sailed. The Russian government has recently been experimenting with cutting access to the global Internet entirely:
techradar.com/…/russia-disconnects-several-region…
jarfil@beehaw.org 3 days ago
🙄… They’re experimenting with cutting access, precisely because the ship has sailed on controlling the devices.
NK is a paranoid Orwellian state with generational punishments, where everyone reports on everyone else. Russia has nowhere that level of control over its people, their only option is to control the ISPs… and I bet that when they do, people will sneak in some Starlink access points.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 3 days ago
The vast majority of Russian citizens are living in cities. How practical do you think it is for them to use Starlink antennas there, especially undetected? How are they going to pay for the service with Russia being increasingly detached from the global banking system? Not to mention: Musk has close ties to Putin and restricted this service upon request from Moscow in the past - and it’s trivial to block these signals even if he doesn’t.
jarfil@beehaw.org 3 days ago
110 million in cities vs. 36 million in the countryside. That’s about the population of all of Ukraine.
Paying for the service, works like in every other conflict area. Internet is the new Radio Free Europe.
When? If it’s about that one Ukraine drone attack, it was a US restriction.
Blocking the signal is trivial? Then why is Russia losing inland tankers on the Black Sea after they’ve messed up the passage of seaworthy ones into the Sea of Azov while trying to stop those Starlink controlled Ukrainian drones. Why not simply block the signal?