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Discord is now banned in Russia and Turkey decided to ban it too. This led to users trying to find a replacement and brought down the TeamSpeak and Revolt servers. Revolt even had to temporarily restrict registrations on the platform.

Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russia's communications regulator has blocked instant messaging platform Discord for violating Russian law, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday, making the San Francisco-based company the latest foreign technology platform to be restricted in Russia. Discord did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia has for several years ordered foreign technology platforms to remove content it regards as illegal, issuing relatively small but regular fines when it rules that companies have failed to comply. The regulator, Roskomnadzor, last week ordered Discord to delete almost 1,000 items it deemed illegal and has previously fined the company for failing to remove banned content.

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

It's weird that WhatsApp is still operational in Russia, despite Meta being labeled as a terrorist organisation. Them banning people sure love to half ass things

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rumour is that the Shahid Drones use Discord as a backend for Command and Control.

😂

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Nothing of value etc etc

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why are they making it harder for me to learn Russian and Turkish :/

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Props for trying your hand at Russian. Being a native speaker, only about a year ago did I realize how ridiculously complex the language is. From phonetics, to high context dependence, to word building and conjugation, I commend people who are tackling this abomination.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Dueling sanctions.