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Thanks for the words of reason! Not all people here in Russia are evil maniacs who desire to destroy the world. All this confrontation between Russia and USA is going too far
Kind of a myopic view point dont you think? I mean we are talking about a rather minor interruption of playing a video game? Sounds like a good time to go outside or take care of some other aspects of your life. you also seemed to forget that this was done in hopes of addressing whatever issues this telegram app was causing what about those poor souls that the telegram app was causing problems for do they not deserve reprieve?
Unfortunately this is a large problem with the progressive liberals of western culture and their entitlement attitude. wut I cant play my video game for 2 weeks? THE HORROR WHAT BARBARISM IS THIS!
So what I got from reading the article i that the problem is acknowledged and is being addressed to hopefully resolve the issue and allow people to resume their fantasy escape 100% unproductive time spent gaming. Aka there is no real issue beyond some minor inconveniences.
I'll be honest you should do a little reflection if your state of mind has you feeling deeply sorry for some people who are unable to access a video game for a few weeks because of "government intrusion". I'll be honest I have yet to see you use your platform to defend and feel sorry for people right here in america who are being denied access to platforms such as twitter and facebook because they have "right leaning"political views and these people are actually being damaged far more by losing sources of income they might rely on for raising their family. Hell here was some dude in Scotland who was arrested and put in jail for goofing around teaching his pug (dog) how to do the nazi salute...now that is truly disgusting and a scary reminder of the dangerous time we are in regarding personal freedom and safety.
LOL? Say what? Here we go you some rando across the world "know whats best for russians" and well 76% deserve the horror show that is not being able to access a video game for a few weeks? you know nothing of the russian people (i dont either btw) and clearly 76% used their free will to make a choice they wanted. I mean they could easily make the same claim for any american president that was elected and your response would be?
Novel idea mind your own business when it comes to other countries and their cultures you know not what the people there want/need/desire The vocal minority with their agenda do not speak for the majority. Let's be truly honest adults for a moment...and I say this as an avid video gamer, Video games are a unproductive and even destructive force that serves no purpose in society other than wasting what is actually valuable time that could be spent doing useful things. It makes people lazy, its consumes time that otherwise could be spent accruing valuable knowledge/work to make lives better.
TLDR beyond satisfying our own personal addictions to waste away having fun as a matter of fact the world would be a better place without video games. If we took all the hours wasted making and playing video games and put them towards building homeless shelters working to create food, volunteering to help needy people in a zillion different ways the world is factually better off. Just some perspective.
I'm not sure if you are joking or you are serious?
1st. They aren't content. There was plenty of proof that the vote was rig. People were caught trying to change full ballots with fake votes. I doubt that more than 20-30% of the population want's Putin as their leader.
2nd. If the way the government would respond to a "riot" or whatever you would call the US cities being on fire is the same as what would be the response in Russia or any other country that have slightly(or severely) more crazy leader I doubt that anyone would even dare to go out of their house.
Russia probably wants to replace Putin, but it's close to impossible at this point. Everyone that works in the government has to vote for him or once a new leader comes people will start to lose their jobs aka "cleaning". Those people which I assume are quite a high number from the voters + the fake votes and they stand no chance.
Russia don't have a chance, but can you tell me how did US manage to elect Trump? I mean he obviously have IQ that's lower than 90, which makes him unfit to be the cleaning lady in the White House let alone the Head of your country.
What I'm saying is that there are a lot of factors in play.
In my country there were protests few years ago to bring down the government that was "ruling" and guess what... The very next vote they won again because everyone that works a government job voted for them + they like Putin changed whole ballots with votes or threw ballots with legit votes in the garbage. End result? They are ruling again, but at least they only steal money they don't oppress the people in my country.
But there were issues on the 17th, this is true.
As such, at the time, the election results shows the majority of voters disagreed with your assessment of Trump, or preferred him over Clinton regardless.
Modern politics is often more about perception than truth, form than substance, charisma than platform. Many of the electorate simply lack the knowledge to make an informed and considered vote, whether by choice or circumstance. Also, many vote based on emotion rather than reason.
The genuine merit of an individual (which is itself often a matter of opinion) can easily get lost in the shuffle such that the impact it has on the election result can be minimal.
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really if you consider this a political article, urm you are distinctly wrong.
Hopefully I distilled this into something not too technical, and a bit insightful for those of us who dont regularly have to game outside of xbox live and battlenet in the western world
agreed. Especialyl we all suffer from this. This Uk snoopers charter, the further moves of government into regulating industries they dont understand is both interesting and a bt scary. I don't take a bias towards this action in terms of regulation (becuase Im trying to be reasoned reporter type) but the lack of understanding that authorities have when they dig these holes is the scariest part
If you follow international news mediums you'll see that a lot of countries are upping their privacy/security laws for their own reasons. Usually the reason is something russophobic. But now it appears Russia is doing the same.. so what's really going on here?
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Literally my point. Trump got elected on charisma and ignorance on voters side.. That's worse in my eyes and what's more surprising is that he still hasn't been impeached after all the crap around him, yet an outstanding president like Clinton who arguably is among the best presidents got impeached over what every second man in power do when no one is watching
My point is not to judge other people let alone whole countries when people are so misinformed.
Nothing wrong with opinions, but judgement's are a bit...
Btw this is coming from someone who isn't a particular fan to Russia... I don't really like the country for some of the crap it does, but I don't hate the people for the crap those in power do. That's what I'm trying to say.
This is a much, much larger issue than one about gaming, but one we've chosen to angle to our readers without tackling the much bigger elephant in the room that it represents. My personal empathy for the people affected by this goes far, far beyond gaming but I am keeping the spotlight where it correctly belongs given the mission of this site.
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The same thing with Telegram, the top Underground networks actually have their own hidden services and secrets, just because of Telegram could be used to do illegal activity doesn't mean other apps can't be used to do the same thing...
In fact without giving the name of the APP, or services due to what they can be used for but besides telegram being used as a face for illegal activity there are certain apps located in the united states that with the right third party coding can be used for illegal activity or relaying information to the bad guys or terrorists, even make out a shopping list for groceries lets just say, its unencrypted, but chances are no one would even look there, so no it's not just telegram.
I will give a hint, remember back in the day when there was a news article about World OF Warcraft in-game mail being used for communications via terrorists but Blizzard now actively checks for this although think of a company out there that doesn't check for this.
And yes acts of terror or illegal activity communications can be easily done in online games, or other games the only question is how easy it is to catch before someone can harm another which is why people have to look out for each other.
Another issue is private owned email servers via anonymity for $1000 my friend can write me the code to run my own email server from any domain I want to with any type of encryption almost, that means they can do it too.
Edit: and speaking of Telegram I know a lot of Ingress & Pokemon go players actually use it though I prefer discord, but discord is not a means to talk about illegal stuff, or stuff you want to keep private because they monitor all that over there even if you like have your own discord it's not secure, but its great for gaming.
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Lol! Do you think that getting rid of trolls is so easy?
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We need to choose very carefully when to act morally superior and preach our own views on how it should be done to other countries with other cultures. It's much too easy to create hatred and conflicts when we start doing it.