cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/42209343
When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.
Credit cards that won’t buy a ticket on public transport. ATMs that don’t connect to a network. Messaging apps that are down. Cellphones that don’t receive texts or data after a trip abroad. Mothers of diabetic children even complain with alarm that they can’t monitor their kids’ blood glucose levels during outages.
Russia has propaganda now, on how life is better without internet.
With gloomy pictures showing people using their phones and looking unhappy, contrasted with people walking together holding hands and smiling.
(Seen on Jake Broe on youtube.)Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
