Pavel Durov just posted this words on VK:

Thank you for your support and dedication – together we managed to survive the first 24 hours of blocking.

As shown last night, in their war, authorities of Russia are ready to block millions of IP addresses of cloud hosting, regardless of losses of foreign projects.

In addition, the Russian authorities are struggling with independent services of proxy/VPN. Many of which no longer work (if this occurs, disable the proxy settings in Telegram and try to find another).

Although the Russian market is a substantial fraction of the user base of Telegram, it is important to us for personal reasons.

Digital Resistance is a decentralized movement to protect digital freedom and progress – I started to pay bitcoin to the administrators of the proxies and vpns. In the course of this year I will be happy to sacrifice millions for that purpose. I encourage everyone to join and participate – setting up a proxy/vpn servers or donating to them.

🌐 Source: VK

#censorship #russia #block

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