It may seem that Bitcoin has not provided significant end-user control or societal value upon initial observation, but its fate is not yet determined.

It may seem that Bitcoin has not provided significant end-user control or societal value upon initial observation, but its fate is not yet determined. 

Rather than dismissing it entirely, we should view Bitcoin as a work in progress and strive to improve it. Dismissing it as a failure does a disservice to the cypherpunk movement.

Let us not judge Bitcoin solely based on the lofty goals assigned to it upon its initial release. If we measure the internet using the same metric, it may appear to have failed. However, we cannot deny that it is used daily for instant communication across the world, even if it is mostly through centralized platforms. Similarly, Bitcoin enables instant transactions across the world, even if it is mostly through centralized platforms.

In today's world, it is often more convenient and profitable to create a centralized platform that controls and extracts rent, rather than a decentralized product that prioritizes user protection. However, true user protection can only be achieved when individuals, like the developers of Mastodon, consistently create user-protecting systems that fill gaps and encourage their use. Bitcoin can only protect its users when multiple people, preferably from the same community, develop user-protecting systems on top of it. Over the past few years, various privacy-focused wallets have gained popularity, and lightning was created to enable lower-value instant transactions, which is also gradually gaining acceptance. However, these systems, like Bitcoin itself, are in their early stages and have limited resources. Rather than disregarding their value, we should acknowledge and appreciate them. We can contribute code to these projects and generate new ideas. Remember:

Cypherpunks Write Code.

VpnHood

 

A491598198/VpnHood

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An alternative way for circumvention and privacy!

Undetectable VPN for ordinary users and experts. VpnHood is a solution to bypass Advanced Firewalls and circumvent deep packet inspection. VpnHood has been created entirely from scratch in C#.

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• Extendable User Management via REST API
• Component-based via Nuget packages
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VpnHood supports IPv6, but in Windows, you need to be already on the IPv6 network, so all your network traffic will be tunneled through VpnHood. In Windows, you will not have access to IPv6 sites if your network is not already configured to use IPv6. In Android, however, you will get an IPV6 address and access to all IPv6 sites regardless of your network configuration.

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How do the new rpc-payment... options for monerod work?

By Reset to 

monero.stackexchange.com

4 min

November 8, 2019

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Quoting the relevant commit message:

daemon, wallet: new pay for RPC use system

Daemons intended for public use can be set up to require payment
in the form of hashes in exchange for RPC service. This enables
public daemons to receive payment for their work over a large
number of calls. This system behaves similarly to a pool, so
payment takes the form of valid blocks every so often, yielding
a large one off payment, rather than constant micropayments.

This system can also be used by third parties as a "paywall"
layer, where users of a service can pay for use by mining Monero
to the service provider's address. An example of this for web
site access is Primo, a Monero mining based website "paywall":
https://github.com/selene-kovri/primo

This has some advantages:
 - incentive to run a node providing RPC services, thereby promoting the availability of third party nodes for those who can't run their own
 - incentive to run your own node instead of using a third party's, thereby promoting decentralization
 - decentralized: payment is done between a client and server, with no third party needed
 - private: since the system is "pay as you go", you don't need to identify yourself to claim a long lived balance
 - no payment occurs on the blockchain, so there is no extra transactional load
 - one may mine with a beefy server, and use those credits from a phone, by reusing the client ID (at the cost of some privacy)
 - no barrier to entry: anyone may run a RPC node, and your expected revenue depends on how much work you do
 - Sybil resistant: if you run 1000 idle RPC nodes, you don't magically get more revenue
 - no large credit balance maintained on servers, so they have no incentive to exit scam
 - you can use any/many node(s), since there's little cost in switching servers
 - market based prices: competition between servers to lower costs
 - incentive for a distributed third party node system: if some public nodes are overused/slow, traffic can move to others
 - increases network security
 - helps counteract mining pools' share of the network hash rate
 - zero incentive for a payer to "double spend" since a reorg does not give any money back to the miner

And some disadvantages:
 - low power clients will have difficulty mining (but one can optionally mine in advance and/or with a faster machine)
 - payment is "random", so a server might go a long time without a block before getting one
 - a public node's overall expected payment may be small

Public nodes are expected to compete to find a suitable level for
cost of service.

The daemon can be set up this way to require payment for RPC services:

  monerod --rpc-payment-address 4xxxxxx \
    --rpc-payment-credits 250 --rpc-payment-difficulty 1000

These values are an example only.

The --rpc-payment-difficulty switch selects how hard each "share" should
be, similar to a mining pool. The higher the difficulty, the fewer
shares a client will find.
The --rpc-payment-credits switch selects how many credits are awarded
for each share a client finds.
Considering both options, clients will be awarded credits/difficulty
credits for every hash they calculate. For example, in the command line
above, 0.25 credits per hash. A client mining at 100 H/s will therefore
get an average of 25 credits per second.
For reference, in the current implementation, a credit is enough to
sync 20 blocks, so a 100 H/s client that's just starting to use Monero
and uses this daemon will be able to sync 500 blocks per second.

The wallet can be set to automatically mine if connected to a daemon
which requires payment for RPC usage. It will try to keep a balance
of 50000 credits, stopping mining when it's at this level, and starting
again as credits are spent. With the example above, a new client will
mine this much credits in about half an hour, and this target is enough
to sync 500000 blocks (currently about a third of the monero blockchain).

There are three new settings in the wallet:

 - credits-target: this is the amount of credits a wallet will try to
reach before stopping mining. The default of 0 means 50000 credits.

 - auto-mine-for-rpc-payment-threshold: this controls the minimum
credit rate which the wallet considers worth mining for. If the
daemon credits less than this ratio, the wallet will consider mining
to be not worth it. In the example above, the rate is 0.25

 - persistent-rpc-client-id: if set, this allows the wallet to reuse
a client id across runs. This means a public node can tell a wallet
that's connecting is the same as one that connected previously, but
allows a wallet to keep their credit balance from one run to the
other. Since the wallet only mines to keep a small credit balance,
this is not normally worth doing. However, someone may want to mine
on a fast server, and use that credit balance on a low power device
such as a phone. If left unset, a new client ID is generated at
each wallet start, for privacy reasons.

To mine and use a credit balance on two different devices, you can
use the --rpc-client-secret-key switch. A wallet's client secret key
can be found using the new rpc_payments command in the wallet.
Note: anyone knowing your RPC client secret key is able to use your
credit balance.

The wallet has a few new commands too:

 - start_mining_for_rpc: start mining to acquire more credits,
regardless of the auto mining settings
 - stop_mining_for_rpc: stop mining to acquire more credits
 - rpc_payments: display information about current credits with
the currently selected daemon

The node has an extra command:

 - rpc_payments: display information about clients and their
balances

The node will forget about any balance for clients which have
been inactive for 6 months. Balances carry over on node restart.

 

Working and Open Torrent Trackers List (2024 Update)

By Thomas 

thomas.vanhoutte.be

6 min

January 1, 2022

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It is becoming more known: adding more torrent trackers increase your torrent download speed. This is why, every year, I publish a fresh new list of open and free torrent trackers that you can use in your favourite torrent program. In broad terms, by adding more torrent trackers, your torrent downloads will connect to a wider network of seeds and peers – ultimately this will increase the downloading speeds of your torrents.

In this blogpost, I will share the torrent trackers list 2022 as well as a short tutorial on how to add the trackers into the torrent downloading program of your choice.

Reminder: What is a torrent tracker?

First, let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about what is a BitTorrent tracker:

A BitTorrent tracker is a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol.

In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of the requested file residing on peer machines are sent to the client, and then reassembled into a full copy of the requested file. The “tracker” server keeps track of where file copies reside on peer machines, which ones are available at time of the client request, and helps coordinate efficient transmission and reassembly of the copied file. Clients that have already begun downloading a file communicate with the tracker periodically to negotiate faster file transfer with new peers, and provide network performance statistics; however, after the initial peer-to-peer file download is started, peer-to-peer communication can continue without the connection to a tracker.

So basically when you add a torrent tracker URL to your torrent program, it will instruct your torrent program to connect to that BitTorrent tracker server. This tracker is basically the ‘referee’ and knows the rule of the torrent-game: it will keep an eye on the full downloading scene that is happening surrounding the concerned torrent.

In this blogpost I will only list open, public and free torrent trackers. This means that you don’t need to pay, register or connect to a specific network in order to make use of the tracker services. You simply import the list and the new seeds and peers should start to connect automatically.

The main advantages of trackers

First of all: a torrent tracker is not something optional in the BitTorrent world. Without trackers, you would not be able to start your downloads. It means that your torrent will be stuck at 0% because it cannot find any seeds or peers. If you add a torrent to your torrent program by downloading a .torrent file or clicking a magnet link, it will already contain a reference to 1 or a small list of trackers.

So by adding (more) trackers, your downloads will not get stuck at zero percent (or somewhere in the middle). Secondly, your overall downloads speed will increase, so that in the end your downloads will finish quickly.

As a third advantage I want to add that more seeds and peers will be added which are close to you geographically. If you live in Germany, the torrent trackers will likely also inform your torrent program there are other seeds and peers closely – in the same country or nearby. Your download program can perform a quick check on the latency of each seed/peer and prefer faster seeds and peers. Example: if you download an internal torrent file (such as Ubuntu Desktop), you will likely be connected to other users all over the world. Yet, your torrent program may prefer to download from other users in Germany or Europa rather than far away from you.

How to add a torrent tracker in my torrent program?

Adding new trackers (coming from the torrent tracker list below) to your torrent program is relatively easy. But, it depends on your preferred program how it works exactly. The principle of adding trackers is the same for all programs though, so if you follow below steps, you should be able to replicate these steps for your program.

The below procedure should work for the following popular BitTorrent programs:

• uTorrent
• qBittorrent
• Vuze
• Transmission
• BitTorrent
• Deluge
• Tixati
• BitComet
• Web-based torrent

Here are the steps you should follow:

1. First, copy the below list of trackers to your clipboard. Note that the empty new lines are required and should remain.
2. Open your torrent program and select the ‘trackers’ option
3. Click on ‘add trackers’ (or similar option)
4. Paste the list of trackers and confirm by clicking ‘Ok’

Select the ‘Add a new tracker…’ in the ‘Trackers’ screen.

If you followed these simple steps, you should have succesfully added the trackers for your torrent. You should note that these steps should be repeated for every torrent file you are downloading. Now the torrent download should start to add more seeds and peers, this is because the new trackers will keep track of more connected users who are also downloading and uploading the concerned torrent file.

Torrent tracker list 2022

Use the torrent tracker list below: copy this and paste it into your downloading program.

http://1337.abcvg.info:80/announce

http://bt.okmp3.ru:2710/announce

http://fosstorrents.com:6969/announce

http://home.yxgz.vip:6969/announce

http://mediaclub.tv:80/announce.php

http://milanesitracker.tekcities.com:80/announce

http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce

http://open.acgnxtracker.com:80/announce

http://share.camoe.cn:8080/announce

http://t.nyaatracker.com:80/announce

http://t.overflow.biz:6969/announce

http://tr.cili001.com:8070/announce

http://tracker.bt4g.com:2095/announce

http://tracker.files.fm:6969/announce

http://tracker.gbitt.info:80/announce

http://tracker.ipv6tracker.ru:80/announce

http://vps02.net.orel.ru:80/announce

https://carbon-bonsai-621.appspot.com:443/announce

https://t.btcland.xyz:443/announce

https://tp.m-team.cc:443/announce.php

https://tr.burnabyhighstar.com:443/announce

https://tr.doogh.club:443/announce

https://tr.fuckbitcoin.xyz:443/announce

https://tr.highstar.shop:443/announce

https://tr.ready4.icu:443/announce

https://tracker.cyber-hub.net:443/announce

https://tracker.imgoingto.icu:443/announce

https://tracker.iriseden.fr:443/announce

https://tracker.kuroy.me:443/announce

https://tracker.lilithraws.cf:443/announce

https://tracker.loligirl.cn:443/announce

https://tracker.nanoha.org:443/announce

https://tracker.tamersunion.org:443/announce

https://trackme.theom.nz:443/announce

udp://6ahddutb1ucc3cp.ru:6969/announce

udp://9.rarbg.com:2810/announce

udp://abufinzio.monocul.us:6969/announce

udp://bt1.archive.org:6969/announce

udp://bt2.archive.org:6969/announce

udp://code2chicken.nl:6969/announce

udp://discord.heihachi.pw:6969/announce

udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce

udp://fe.dealclub.de:6969/announce

udp://mail.realliferpg.de:6969/announce

udp://movies.zsw.ca:6969/announce

udp://open.demonii.com:1337/announce

udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce

udp://open.tracker.cl:1337/announce

udp://open.xxtor.com:3074/announce

udp://opentor.org:2710/announce

udp://p4p.arenabg.com:1337/announce

udp://retracker.hotplug.ru:2710/announce

udp://retracker.lanta-net.ru:2710/announce

udp://retracker.netbynet.ru:2710/announce

udp://thetracker.org:80/announce

udp://tracker-udp.gbitt.info:80/announce

udp://tracker.0x.tf:6969/announce

udp://tracker.auctor.tv:6969/announce

udp://tracker.beeimg.com:6969/announce

udp://tracker.birkenwald.de:6969/announce

udp://tracker.blacksparrowmedia.net:6969/announce

udp://tracker.cyberia.is:6969/announce

udp://tracker.dix.tf:6969/announce

udp://tracker.jordan.im:6969/announce

udp://tracker.lelux.fi:6969/announce

udp://tracker.moeking.eu.org:6969/announce

udp://tracker.moeking.me:6969/announce

udp://tracker.ololosh.space:6969/announce

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:6969/announce

udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

udp://tracker.pomf.se:80/announce

udp://tracker.sylphix.com:6969/announce

udp://tracker.theoks.net:6969/announce

udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce

udp://tracker1.bt.moack.co.kr:80/announce

udp://tracker2.dler.com:80/announce

udp://tracker6.lelux.fi:6969/announce

udp://vibe.sleepyinternetfun.xyz:1738/announce

udp://www.torrent.eu.org:451/announce

wss://tracker.openwebtorrent.com:443/announce

 

Torrent Trackers List To Increase Downloading Speed In 2022 [100% Working Trackers]

Anmol Sachdeva6-7 minutes 14.04.2022

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Those who are aware of how torrents work know that when you’re downloading a file using a torrent, you are downloading bits and pieces of the desired file from multiple locations. This decentralized and peer-to-peer transfer of files is facilitated by torrent clients. So we have put together a list of some of the best torrent trackers that are working at the time of writing this article.

Once you’ve downloaded the magnet links, you need to open them in a torrent client. You can then use popular clients like BitTorrent, uTorrent, Deluge, and Vuze. Now, the torrent client you’ve chosen requests peers and seeds who have also downloaded the file to offer you a piece of it.

However, it happens at times that there are very few seeds for a particular file which slows down the downloading process and this is where torrent trackers come into play. By using these torrent trackers mentioned in the list below, you can increase the download speed of torrent files.

What are torrent trackers?

In layman’s terms, torrent trackers are servers that keep track of the peers who are available at the moment to offer you the requested files. These are also special types of servers that help in better communication between torrent clients and peers to speed up downloads.

The more torrent trackers you add, the more chances that you’ll get a large number of seeders and peers for the file you’re trying to download. If more people are available to upload files to you, faster will be the downloading speed. Torrent trackers are of two types — private trackers and public trackers.

Public torrent trackers

Also known as open trackers, public torrent trackers lists can be used by anyone by adding them to the torrent client. You also do not need registration or an invitation for using public trackers to increase torrent download speed.

Private torrent trackers

Private torrent trackers lists are not available for everybody. You also need to register yourself or access a private tracker using an invite. These torrent trackers are safe as compared to public trackers but there are upload and download limits and you cannot use the tracker beyond it. You can access private torrent trackers on Reddit or similar forums.

Below is a list of torrent trackers that you can use in 2022 to increase your torrent downloading speed —

Disclaimer: We don’t support using these Torrent trackers to download copyright-protected content.

http://tracker2.wasabii.com.tw:6969/announce

udp://tracker.sktorrent.net:6969/announce

http://www.wareztorrent.com:80/announce

udp://bt.xxx-tracker.com:2710/announce

udp://tracker.eddie4.nl:6969/announce

udp://tracker.grepler.com:6969/announce

udp://tracker.mg64.net:2710/announce

udp://wambo.club:1337/announce

udp://tracker.dutchtracking.com:6969/announce

udp://tc.animereactor.ru:8082/announce

udp://tracker.justseed.it:1337/announce

udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969/announce

udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

https://open.kickasstracker.com:443/announce

udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce

udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce

http://87.253.152.137/announce

http://91.216.110.47/announce

http://91.217.91.21:3218/announce

http://91.218.230.81:6969/announce

http://93.92.64.5/announce

http://atrack.pow7.com/announce

http://bt.henbt.com:2710/announce

http://bt.pusacg.org:8080/announce

https://tracker.bt-hash.com:443/announce

udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969

https://182.176.139.129:6969/announce

udp://zephir.monocul.us:6969/announce

https://tracker.dutchtracking.com:80/announce

https://grifon.info:80/announce

udp://tracker.kicks-ass.net:80/announce

udp://p4p.arenabg.com:1337/announce

udp://tracker.aletorrenty.pl:2710/announce

udp://tracker.sktorrent.net:6969/announce

udp://tracker.internetwarriors.net:1337/announce

https://tracker.parrotsec.org:443/announce

https://tracker.moxing.party:6969/announce

https://tracker.ipv6tracker.ru:80/announce

https://tracker.fastdownload.xyz:443/announce

udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce

https://gwp2-v19.rinet.ru:80/announce

https://tr.kxmp.cf:80/announce

https://explodie.org:6969/announce

How to add a Torrent tracker to a Torrent downloader?

Now that you have got the list of torrent trackers for 2022. The next step is adding these torrent trackers to a torrent client. You can add these trackers to any torrent client. We have also included a list of some of the most popular Torrent downloaders that you use right now.

Popular Torrent downloaders

• uTorrent
• qBittorrent
• Vuze
• Transmission
• BitTorrent
• Deluge
• Tixati
• BitComet
• Web-based torrent

To help you with the process, we will also be demonstrating the procedure to add torrent trackers to uTorrent, which is one of the most popular torrent clients. The above-mentioned trackers also work well with other torrent clients and with this tracker list for uTorrent, you can increase your torrent downloading speed.

Adding a torrent tracker to a torrent client is a fairly easy process.

• Right-click on the torrent you are downloading in uTorrent.
• Click on ‘Properties’ and add trackers with an empty line between the trackers.
• Click on the Ok button and trackers will be added to the torrent.

After adding torrent trackers to uTorrent, you will also see the downloading speed for your torrent. If you’re facing trouble in downloading torrents, you can also look at our Kickass alternatives and Pirate Bay alternatives.

Suggsted Read: Best Torrent Sites To Download Your Favorite Torrents

Anmol is a tech journalist who handles reportage of cybersecurity and Apple and OnePlus devices at Fossbytes. He's an ambivert who is striving hard to appease existential crisis by eating, writing, and scrolling through memes.

 

Russische YouTube-bloggers zullen gedwongen worden over te stappen naar binnenlandse platforms

Door de Russische dienst van de Moskou Times 

moscowtimes.nl

2 minuten

9 februari 2024

Origineel bekijken

De Russische autoriteiten bereiden zich voor om bloggers van YouTube met geweld op binnenlandse videoplatforms te ‘landen’. Om dit te doen heeft de Openbare Kamer (PC) van de Russische Federatie besloten een zwarte lijst op te stellen van degenen die wel vertegenwoordigd zijn op de Amerikaanse videodienst, maar niet op Russische platforms.

“We zullen het publiceren ( de zwarte lijst – TMT) omdat dit mensen zijn die opzettelijk niet in Russische sociale netwerken werken en zichzelf positioneren als Russische bloggers”, zegt Alexander Malkevich, eerste vice-voorzitter van de RF OP Commissie voor de Ontwikkeling van de Informatiegemeenschap, media en massacommunicatie.

Volgens hem zal de lijst deel uitmaken van een programma om bloggers aan te moedigen over te stappen naar binnenlandse sociale netwerken. “In de toekomst zou het de basis moeten worden voor het ontwikkelen en ondernemen van actie tegen contentmakers die onze platforms negeren. En hier moeten de wetgevers hun zegje doen, want als je niet naar onze platforms gaat, betekent dit dat je je inkomen wilt verbergen uit domheid of uit gewoonte, of dat je vijandige activiteiten ontplooit,’ merkte Malkevich op.

Hij stelde ook voor een reeks maatregelen uit te werken om opinieleiders te motiveren om over te stappen naar Russische sociale netwerken. “We moeten ze helpen op deze sociale netwerken. We publiceerden in het OP Telegam-kanaal een hele lijst van onze normale, goed ontwikkelende sociale netwerken - analogen van westerse. Dit is allemaal aanwezig, het werkt”, concludeerde de vertegenwoordiger van het OP.

Ondanks de dreiging om YouTube in Rusland te blokkeren, blijft het aantal Russische bloggers op de videodienst groeien: van november 2022 tot november 2023 steeg het met 18% tot 7,1 miljoen mensen, zoals berekend door Brand Analytic.

Ook verhoogde YouTube in Rusland het volume aan inhoud en de activiteit van auteurs - met respectievelijk 22% (tot 29,5 miljoen berichten) en 4%. Tegelijkertijd is VKontakte, dat door de autoriteiten wordt gepositioneerd als vervanging voor YouTube in geval van blokkering, in de loop van het jaar het aantal auteurs met 8% gedaald tot 25,6 miljoen, en het volume van de inhoud daalde met 12% - van 472,5 miljoen berichten naar 414,2 miljoen. Brand Analytics verklaarde de daling van het aantal auteurs als een “opleving na merkbare groei in voorgaande perioden.”

Eerder gaf de Doema toe dat het pas in 2028 mogelijk zou zijn om YouTube in Rusland te blokkeren. De belangrijkste reden is het ontbreken van een binnenlands alternatief, merkte Anton Gorelkin op, vice-voorzitter van de Doema-commissie voor informatiebeleid, technologie en communicatie.

“Vandaag hebben we twee diensten, waarvan er één een vlucht moet nemen: RuTube en VK-video. Persoonlijk gok ik op het laatste”, benadrukte Gorelkin. Bovendien was hij het ermee eens dat YouTube ‘zowel technologisch als ideologisch’ in de Runet was geïntegreerd en ook ‘in kwaliteit had gewonnen’.

 

Russische YouTube-bloggers zullen gedwongen worden over te stappen naar binnenlandse platforms

Door de Russische dienst van de Moskou Times 

moscowtimes.nl

2 minuten

9 februari 2024

Origineel bekijken

De Russische autoriteiten bereiden zich voor om bloggers van YouTube met geweld op binnenlandse videoplatforms te ‘landen’. Om dit te doen heeft de Openbare Kamer (PC) van de Russische Federatie besloten een zwarte lijst op te stellen van degenen die wel vertegenwoordigd zijn op de Amerikaanse videodienst, maar niet op Russische platforms.

“We zullen het publiceren ( de zwarte lijst – TMT) omdat dit mensen zijn die opzettelijk niet in Russische sociale netwerken werken en zichzelf positioneren als Russische bloggers”, zegt Alexander Malkevich, eerste vice-voorzitter van de RF OP Commissie voor de Ontwikkeling van de Informatiegemeenschap, media en massacommunicatie.

Volgens hem zal de lijst deel uitmaken van een programma om bloggers aan te moedigen over te stappen naar binnenlandse sociale netwerken. “In de toekomst zou het de basis moeten worden voor het ontwikkelen en ondernemen van actie tegen contentmakers die onze platforms negeren. En hier moeten de wetgevers hun zegje doen, want als je niet naar onze platforms gaat, betekent dit dat je je inkomen wilt verbergen uit domheid of uit gewoonte, of dat je vijandige activiteiten ontplooit,’ merkte Malkevich op.

Hij stelde ook voor een reeks maatregelen uit te werken om opinieleiders te motiveren om over te stappen naar Russische sociale netwerken. “We moeten ze helpen op deze sociale netwerken. We publiceerden in het OP Telegam-kanaal een hele lijst van onze normale, goed ontwikkelende sociale netwerken - analogen van westerse. Dit is allemaal aanwezig, het werkt”, concludeerde de vertegenwoordiger van het OP.

Ondanks de dreiging om YouTube in Rusland te blokkeren, blijft het aantal Russische bloggers op de videodienst groeien: van november 2022 tot november 2023 steeg het met 18% tot 7,1 miljoen mensen, zoals berekend door Brand Analytic.

Ook verhoogde YouTube in Rusland het volume aan inhoud en de activiteit van auteurs - met respectievelijk 22% (tot 29,5 miljoen berichten) en 4%. Tegelijkertijd is VKontakte, dat door de autoriteiten wordt gepositioneerd als vervanging voor YouTube in geval van blokkering, in de loop van het jaar het aantal auteurs met 8% gedaald tot 25,6 miljoen, en het volume van de inhoud daalde met 12% - van 472,5 miljoen berichten naar 414,2 miljoen. Brand Analytics verklaarde de daling van het aantal auteurs als een “opleving na merkbare groei in voorgaande perioden.”

Eerder gaf de Doema toe dat het pas in 2028 mogelijk zou zijn om YouTube in Rusland te blokkeren. De belangrijkste reden is het ontbreken van een binnenlands alternatief, merkte Anton Gorelkin op, vice-voorzitter van de Doema-commissie voor informatiebeleid, technologie en communicatie.

“Vandaag hebben we twee diensten, waarvan er één een vlucht moet nemen: RuTube en VK-video. Persoonlijk gok ik op het laatste”, benadrukte Gorelkin. Bovendien was hij het ermee eens dat YouTube ‘zowel technologisch als ideologisch’ in de Runet was geïntegreerd en ook ‘in kwaliteit had gewonnen’.

 

Russian Youtube bloggers will be forced to switch to domestic platforms

By The Moscow Times Russian Service 

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February 9, 2024

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Russian authorities are preparing to forcibly “land” bloggers from YouTube on domestic video platforms. To do this, the Public Chamber (PC) of the Russian Federation decided to create a blacklist of those who are represented on the American video service, but who are not on Russian platforms.

“We will publish it ( the black list - TMT) because these are people who deliberately do not work in Russian social networks, positioning themselves as Russian bloggers,” said Alexander Malkevich, first deputy chairman of the RF OP Commission for the Development of the Information Community, Media and Mass Communications .

According to him, the list will be part of a program to encourage bloggers to switch to domestic social networks. “In the future, it should become the basis for developing and taking action against content makers who ignore our platforms. And here legislators must have their say, because if you don’t go to our platforms, it means you want to hide your income either out of stupidity, or out of habit, or are conducting enemy activities,” Malkevich noted.

He also proposed working out a set of measures to motivate opinion leaders to switch to Russian social networks. “We need to help them on these social networks. We published in the OP Telegam channel a whole list of our normal, well-developing social networks - analogues of Western ones. All this is there, it works,” concluded the representative of the OP.

Despite the threat of blocking YouTube in Russia, the number of Russian bloggers on the video service continues to grow: from November 2022 to November 2023, it increased by 18%, to 7.1 million people, as calculated by Brand Analytic.

Also, YouTube in Russia increased the volume of content and the activity of authors - by 22% (to 29.5 million messages) and 4%, respectively. At the same time, VKontakte, which is positioned by the authorities as a replacement for YouTube in case of blocking, over the year the number of authors fell by 8%, to 25.6 million, and the volume of content decreased by 12% - from 472.5 million messages to 414 .2 million. Brand Analytics explained the decline in the number of authors as a “rebound after noticeable growth in previous periods.”

Earlier, the State Duma admitted that it would not be possible to block YouTube in Russia until at least 2028. The main reason is the lack of a domestic alternative, noted Anton Gorelkin, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Technology and Communications.

“Today we have two services, one of which should take off: RuTube and VK-video. I personally bet on the latter,” Gorelkin emphasized. In addition, he agreed that YouTube “both technologically and ideologically” was integrated into the Runet, and also “won in quality.”

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Если вы не смотрели интервью Путина Такеру Карслону, то и не надо. В нём, как я и говорил, не прозвучало ничего сенсационного, ничего важного. Старый дед, по какой-то неведомой причине до сих пор занимающий пост президента России, не смог даже нормально поманипулировать иностранным слушателем. Вместо этого Путин просто рассказывал псевдонаучные сказки про Украину и врал.

Я хотел сначала писать этот пост с иронией, хотел всё хорошенько высмеять, но теперь понимаю, что перед нашими глазами развернулась трагедия.

Трагедия нашей страны — ею правит человек, который окончательно сошёл с ума. Всё, Путин спятил, и отношение к нему должно быть соответствующее.

Мы ни в коем случае не должны его жалеть, я про другое. Его надо воспринимать как буйного психбольного, как маньяка и психопата, который несёт откровенный шизопатический бред. Этот человек в буквальном смысле сошёл с ума. Посмотреть его интервью с Карлсоном стоит по единственной причине: если вы думаете, что я преувеличиваю.

Конечно, их двухчасовую беседу можно растаскать на цитаты, там много такого, над чем не грех посмеяться, но весь смысл в другом. В глазах Владимира Путина. В его безумных, сверкающих от радости и наслаждения глазах, когда он рассказывает какие-то совершенно идиотские, несвязные вещи. Он сказал, что отец Зеленского был фронтовиком и воевал с фашизмом. Правда в том, что отец Зеленского, Александр Зеленский, родился в 1947 году и был математиком.

И такого там полно. Бесконечный поток сознания окончательно спятившего человека. Если в Кремле хотели этим интервью сказать что-то важное Америке и всему миру, то у них получилось. Они громко и уверенно утвердили, что Путин сошёл с ума, утонув в пучинах своего больного воображения. Ошалевшее лицо Такера Карлсона тому подтверждение.