RU Russia blocks instant messaging platform Discord, TASS reports - Discord was banned for not removing 947 illegal materials. "[it was] to prevent the use of the messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes, the recruitment of citizens to commit them, the sale of drugs"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-blocks-instant-messaging-platform-discord-tass-reports-2024-10-08/

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/iizW4

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.

Moscow blocked Twitter, which has since rebranded as X, as well as Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram soon after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/22073811

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/2jZwX

Discord Blocked in Russia​

(translated from Russian)

Roskomnadzor explained that access was restricted due to violation of legal requirements

Roskomnadzor (RKN) has blocked the Discord platform in Russia for violating legal requirements. This was reported to TASS by the agency's press service.

"Access to the Discord messenger is restricted due to the violation of the requirements of Russian legislation, the implementation of which is necessary to prevent the use of the messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes, the recruitment of citizens to commit them, the sale of drugs, in connection with the posting of illegal information," the press service reported.

Earlier, Roskomnadzor sent a demand to the administration of the Discord messenger to remove 947 illegal materials. Several Internet pages with such materials were never removed, the department reported.

"In addition, in 2023, the court imposed a fine of 6 million rubles on the company for failing to remove illegal information - the messenger ignored the court decision," RKN added.

Since March 2024, Discord has been included in the register of social networks, which obliges it to independently identify and block illegal content. The company does not comply with the requirements of the law, in connection with which the court imposed a fine of 3.5 million rubles.

Since July 2024, Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have added 14 links to Discord platform pages to the Unified Register of Prohibited Information, according to the register data.

About Discord​

The social network Discord was created in 2015 and was originally conceived as a platform for gamers. Roskomnadzor added Discord to the register of social networks in March 2024.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

Weren't Russian squads using discord to communicate in Ukraine?

They sure were. One can only guess if one of the reasons for the ban was to enforce operational security or if a power-tripping civilian agency just threw another monkey wrench into the Special Military Operation™.

Not to turn this into a Russo-Ukranian war topic, but I believe that was Telegram not Discord.

It was both. I am told Discord is real handy for streaming footage from UAVs.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

They sure were. One can only guess if one of the reasons for the ban was to enforce operational security or if a power-tripping civilian agency just threw another monkey wrench into the Special Military Operation™.

Leaning towards option B, but most likely some of option A too. Of course they still use Starlink at the front, so good luck blocking Discord there without going there in person and confiscating the Starlink receiver. I would really want to see footage of that.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

"Russia bans Discord, dealing a blow to the communications of the Russian military"

 

[Safir]

Russia has for several years ordered foreign technology platforms to remove content it regards as illegal

"content that's illegal in Russia"
Fags.

Was one of the images that pissed off the Russians the HoHoHolocaust image?

I explained this a thousand times (but tbh the last time was a ways back and I forgot the details). Two retards in bumfuck East Siberia had an argument on vkontakte and one reported the other for extremism. Cops looked (they had to look) and indeed found lucky thistles and shit, and RKN entered the content into the registry and sent out automated takedowns. No one was actually offended at hohoholocaust, a retard was offended that the other retard called him a faggot.

 

[NvII iS 8ulLt f0R 88C]

Turkey would be next, if the government wasn't already using it as a honeypot to arrest zoomers too edgy for their own good.

 

[AnOminous]

wtf? I love Russia now.

Glad I read the thread before posting exactly this.

 

[KosherFarms.net]

Why didn't they just pay a Russian nerd to reverse engineer it and make their soldiers use their own brand of Discord?

They already have telegram which from what I've heard is infinitely better than discord. I also heard it has encryption on it too but I'm not sure.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

They already have telegram which from what I've heard is infinitely better than discord. I also heard it has encryption on it too but I'm not sure.

Western militaries use Discord, the US military uses it. Sure, they could use something else but soldiers are people and will use whatever is easier and more familiar for them. Again, reverse engineering Discord would be easy as there wouldn't be any pesky copyright claims because of sanctions.

Thinking out of the box is heavily discouraged in any military structure but war makes it necessary so this is a real bitch move by someone sitting in an office far way from the front.

 

[Tomoko]

WHy the FUCK, IM not operating a VPN company right now.?

 

[AnOminous]

Thinking out of the box is heavily discouraged in any military structure but war makes it necessary so this is a real bitch move by someone sitting in an office far way from the front.

It reminds me of the rage when a Soviet officer thought capturing American military manuals was a huge advantage, until finding out nobody even read them.

"A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."

"content that's illegal in Russia"
Fags.

That's pretty much what nool has told them every time Roskomnadzor has sent him some seething demanding that Ho-Ho-Holocaust material be removed from the firms.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."

Sadly, conformity to doctrine is now a thing in the US military despite Afghanistan/Iraq, and it showed. Unless we're attacked and in a war for our existence it'll continue.

 

[frozen_runner]

Nice to see Russia, despite the war, working together with the West to try and criminalize all platforms and ruin safe harbor protections.

 

[Lurker Child]

pffft. I just use Telegram these days. One time I had to explain Discord to a Russian friend of mine. I phrased it as "Telegram run by furries." That gave him the picture pretty immediately lol.

 

[Ghostse]

Inside Russia
illegal: Discord, calling Putin a faggot
legal: Child porn.

Russia making a case to be the new hosting location of SomethingAwful.com?

I just use Telegram these days

I have some bad news out of France for you...

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

Fight still goes on

 

[AnOminous]

I don't like the cord but I don't think a couple of butthurt boomer Russian politicians banning it will erase it's degeneracy. Cheering on it's ban is retarded, if you are, don't complain whenever a site you do like gets nished.

It's just a meme bro.

 

[Jeb Bush]

I've been using Revolt, the open-source alternative to Discord for a while now and the flood of Russians making accounts is more than noticeable. Yesterday it was so many new users, all the servers went offline and they had to crowdfund through boosty, to quickly upscale. Today a new containment channel for Russian speaking users had to be added in the main support server, to keep the other channels readable for those, who don't speak Russian.

Rumors of Steam following soon, are now spreading:

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

Rumors of Steam following soon, are now spreading:
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Only Steam forums, not the Steam itself. Also, they have been adding and removing Steam forums to their soon-to-block list for years now, so I wouldn't be putting too much faith in those rumors just yet.

 

[Toolbox]

Inside Russia
illegal: Discord, calling Putin a faggot
legal: Child porn.

Russia making a case to be the new hosting location of SomethingAwful.com?

This sounds like a case of something that while not explicitly in law is likely punished regardless when it's found. Sounds as stupid as the weeb pedophiles that claim that Japan's age of consent is somehow 13.

 

[AnOminous]

This sounds like a case of something that while not explicitly in law is likely punished regardless when it's found.

The Russian Mafia and oligopoly are more or less the same. Those guys don't get punished for shit.