Putin ordered his officials to "strangle" foreign internet services. "I say that without any hesitation," he declared. In January, they accidentally strangled the entire Russian internet. Banking apps died. Government sites crashed. 🧵Here's the list of apps they blocked

— Signal (August 2024) — Discord (October 2024) — Viber (December 2024) — 150+ VPN services — 700+ materials about VPNs

WhatsApp seems to be next. 80% of Russians use it. The gaming platform Steam faces the same fate.

How do they do it? With TSPU - "technical measures for threat protection." It's a box installed at every internet provider.

Russian censorship agency Roskomnadzor controls it remotely. It watches every website you visit. If a site is blacklisted, you're blocked.

January 14 showed us the future. Roskomnadzor pushed an update that accidentally marked the ENTIRE internet as banned. Google crashed. Yandex died. Banks froze. Only Telegram survived — nobody knows why.

This is Putin's "sovereign internet" that is built on Western equipment smuggled through sanctions.

96 million Russians use YouTube monthly. That's 46% of everyone over age 12. And the platform now is being slowed by government: traffic is down 40%. Not because of "degraded infrastructure" as they claim - Google confirmed that's a lie.

Putin's friends want Russians watching videos on VK Video (platform run by deputy chief of staff's son) or Rutube (Gazprom's failed project).

In essence, they're criminalizing information about avoiding these blacklists. Since November 30, sharing ANY information about VPNs is illegal. Even scientific research. They warned they'll block half of Russian internet infrastructure if servers don't cooperate with FSB.

Mobile internet gets shut off regularly "to prevent drone attacks." Putin turned off all communications in Moscow before May 9 parade.

Putin's digital prison is Made in the United States, assembled by incompetent loyalists who endagner the whole system. Watch my most recent video on this with Subtitles here:

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