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Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)
submitted 7 months ago by CyberTailor@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14155096

Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia.

Shortly after refusal to comply with agency's demands, the instance was blocked and is now unreachable from Russia.

All previous blocks of Fediverse instaces in Russia were related to hosting CSAM.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 months ago

Hm, I feel that should be easily worked around through proxies, but the problem is that the Russian authorities would go after those russian instances then