Discord is now banned in Russia and Turkey decided to ban it too. This led to users trying to find a replacement and brought down the TeamSpeak and Revolt servers. Revolt even had to temporarily restrict registrations on the platform.

Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russia’s communications regulator has blocked instant messaging platform Discord for violating Russian law, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday, making the San Francisco-based company the latest foreign technology platform to be restricted in Russia. Discord did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia has for several years ordered foreign technology platforms to remove content it regards as illegal, issuing relatively small but regular fines when it rules that companies have failed to comply. The regulator, Roskomnadzor, last week ordered Discord to delete almost 1,000 items it deemed illegal and has previously fined the company for failing to remove banned content.

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Discord was banned in Turkey because of some kids were doing illegal shit like CCs and finding people’s addresses, getting them swatted etc. Of course, the government couldn’t control what’s been going on until things escalate to a level of kids forming up mobs.

Turkey’s egov system e-devlet suffered multiple data breaches in the last couple of years, that’s one of the things that gave this internet mob kids the power to actually wreck people’s lives.

Another day in middle east.

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Punish people for things they have no control over. You’re a smart one.

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Now do WhatsApp.

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It’s weird that WhatsApp is still operational in Russia, despite Meta being labeled as a terrorist organisation. Them banning people sure love to half ass things

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Rumour is that the Shahid Drones use Discord as a backend for Command and Control.

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Nothing of value etc etc

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