Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to the open Internet have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
If anything, this would mean the complete opposite. If they can only viably access internal, national sources (which are generally known to be state-controlled), they will resolve to consuming national content only.
The longer this persists, the worse it will get. This is not good news, in any way.
I don’t believe that to be very likely. The Russian botnets and the like don’t necessarily operate from within Russia. Furthermore, the article states major Russian ISPs, meaning this affects a lot of common people, but unlikely governmental instances.
If the choice is between less propaganda for me, and less for them, I would choose the latter. I daresay the rest of us are much less susceptible to the propaganda than Russian citizens.
Worst case scenario is that we get a case like North Korea, where the outside world cannot do anything that harms them without the government there being able to say to its citizens “See? We told you they were bad!”.
Presumably much of the propaganda is coming from LLM bots trained by Russian state actors to produce propaganda. I don’t think the average Russian knows enough English or cares enough to get on Twitter and sew discord.
If anything, this would mean the complete opposite. If they can only viably access internal, national sources (which are generally known to be state-controlled), they will resolve to consuming national content only.
The longer this persists, the worse it will get. This is not good news, in any way.
No, I meant less propaganda for the rest of us
I don’t believe that to be very likely. The Russian botnets and the like don’t necessarily operate from within Russia. Furthermore, the article states major Russian ISPs, meaning this affects a lot of common people, but unlikely governmental instances.
If the choice is between less propaganda for me, and less for them, I would choose the latter. I daresay the rest of us are much less susceptible to the propaganda than Russian citizens.
Worst case scenario is that we get a case like North Korea, where the outside world cannot do anything that harms them without the government there being able to say to its citizens “See? We told you they were bad!”.
You’re most likely completely right. Even silver linings have lead linings these days
Presumably much of the propaganda is coming from LLM bots trained by Russian state actors to produce propaganda. I don’t think the average Russian knows enough English or cares enough to get on Twitter and sew discord.