Today, March 18, Alexander Khinshtein, head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, said that the Russian authorities are able to use the bad experience of blocking the Telegram messenger, when users massively launched VPNs in order to bypass the ban, to effectively block the social network Twitter in Russia. According to him, a lot has changed since the attempt to block Pavel Durov’s messenger, and it will no longer be possible to use VPN services to gain access to resources prohibited in the country – the state has enough mechanisms to prevent this.
Khinshtein also said that access to VPN services can be blocked in the same way as the social network Twitter itself. That is, if, after blocking the microblogging network, users begin to massively use bypass paths, access to these very paths will be completely blocked by the technical means of the state.
“I have no reason not to trust top-level managers, specialists who assure us that this problem is being solved by technical means today,” Khinshtein said about the possibility of blocking access to VPN services.
These discussions began after Roskomnadzor officially demanded from the social network Twitter to remove many messages that violate the legislation of the Russian Federation. In particular, publications that urged minors to commit suicide. Representatives of Twitter satisfied this requirement only partially, after which the authorities threatened to completely block Twitter in Russia. At the moment, representatives of Roskomnadzor have only slowed down access to the social network, giving the resource management the opportunity to correct the situation.
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