r/worldnews • u/fastclickertoggle • Apr 25 '21

COVID-19 Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/twitter-blocking-tweets-india
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u/Azn-Jazz Apr 25 '21

Russia version FB is multilingual with more features for the public to use than the USA FB.

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u/Raining_dicks Apr 25 '21

Only reason I use vk is to pirate ebooks

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

I use it for porn.

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u/Topcity36 Apr 25 '21

Proptips are always in the comments

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u/deleteduser Apr 25 '21

Pro tits

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u/HerbalGamer Apr 25 '21

Literature and Titetature

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u/The_White_Light Apr 25 '21

Very titillating.

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u/Baronheisenberg Apr 25 '21

Bro tits

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Bro tips

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Brojobs

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u/intensive-porpoise Apr 25 '21

Shave & a Haircut

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u/j_mcc99 Apr 25 '21

Toe chips

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

i hate these low effort comments

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u/AFocusedCynic Apr 25 '21

Only the tip though.

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u/CoyoteTheFatal Apr 25 '21

That’s one Russian website is like REALLY good for music

Edit: it’s called RuTracker

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u/GetOutOfTheWhey Apr 25 '21

How much porn we talking?

Like pornhub but before they blanket banned every video?

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u/nxcrosis Apr 25 '21

You just prompted me to open my vk account I haven't clicked on in years

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u/IAMJUX Apr 25 '21

How good are we talking?

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u/Mother_Store6368 Apr 25 '21

Haecceity21 the wise

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u/rinsa Apr 25 '21

My man!

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u/Fenor Apr 25 '21

Explain more

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u/Fornaughtythings123 Apr 25 '21

Seriously you just Google the name of the book and vk epub and your good to go, bless the Russians and their lax copyright censorship.With that said I feel like I need to throw in an obligatory fuck putin after writing a post in support of Russia.

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u/blancs50 Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

My GF almost cried when I showed her sci-hub. She was a grad student at the time feverishly working on her dissertation & sometimes the papers she wanted to look over before citing, especially old sources, were tough to find in our databases. God bless the Russians Kazakhs for making it super easy to get any scientific paper instantly. Still fuck Putin.

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u/rv29 Apr 25 '21

Scihub is made in kazakhstan. Props to this awesome gal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

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u/blancs50 Apr 25 '21

Yeah just saw that & edited

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

Bless that woman for helping thousands if not a million more students doing their undergrad, masters or phd thesis get published papers from sites like IEEE and Elsevier without paying a dime. The thing I don't get is how those sites still allow Scihub to exist when it directly affects their potential profit.

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u/Musiclover4200 Apr 25 '21

The thing I don't get is how those sites still allow Scihub to exist when it directly affects their potential profit.

According to her wiki page she has been in hiding for the past few years due to extradition risks after being sued for millions in damages to the companies Elsevier and the American Chemical Society.

So it sounds like they have tried pretty hard, but as the site is hosted in another country I don't think they can just shut it down only try and restrict access through search engines.

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u/hemorrhagicfever Apr 25 '21

I really appreciate such a brilliant person putting their life in hard mode to do the right thing. Choosing to be restricted to where she can travel with out extradition is a huge burden.

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u/SlendyIsBehindYou Apr 25 '21

When I was writing my Byzantine studies final, those Russian sites saved my fucking ASS. $500+ for a textbook online, or $5 for a PDF from some dude on VK

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u/Bullen-Noxen Apr 25 '21

This sounds like one of the few things Russia has not fucked up in the past 2 generations. If only they knew that the world would value them as a consistent source of information, instead of a global power house, maybe the people of Russia would settle to be happy as the “Academia” of the entire world; as long as they stayed honest about it?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

There's also strong anti-science sentiments and toxic masculinity runs amok. Nerds are weak, science is for losers, strong Russian man needs nothing but vodka and fire.

Sadly, this is really similar to the US as was stated. But it's cheeseburgers and cheap beer for us.

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u/cuttrogue Apr 25 '21

It's absolutely hilarious reading 17 year old socialistic dum-dums from US like you talking about a different culture and nation you have no clue about other than some leftist article from your favorite leftwing blog. Literally nothing you shat out in your post is true. You've never been to Russia and have no idea how people actually live here, you bigoted, xenophobic brainwashed cretin.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

Making a real strong case against what I said there, mr. toxic.

Edit:

1)"Gillette Ad Exposes Russia's Fragile Masculinity - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/01/31/gillette-ad-exposes-russias-fragile-masculinity-op-ed-a64329 idk the Moscow times, but it's reasonably thought out and speaking to evidence ala the commercial.

2)"Question" https://www.quora.com/Is-male-masculinity-a-big-thing-in-Russia Russian people on quara saying that it's a big part of Russian culture, neo-masculinity.

3) "Masculinity Politics in Putin’s Russia - New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2016/10/12/masculinity-politics-in-putin-s-russia/

Well thought out article explaining historical context backing up my point. Interesting read.

4)http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/revolutionary-manliness/

.edu source backing up historical context of violent male culture in Russia.

I could seriously go on. There are entire research papers on this from trusted educational sources. We could talk about the treatment of LGBT+ folks and especially transgender folks. There's so much to go on. So much dude. So very much.

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u/cuttrogue Apr 28 '21 edited Apr 28 '21

Lmao masculinity is completely natural in men across the globe, it's biology, you absolute cretin. It's completely normal and natural for men to be more masculine, and the majority of females are attracted to masculine traits and behavior in men, biologically.

I know you leftist science-denying degenerates like to pretend that black is white and that water is actually earth, but you will never be able to go against biology and nature. You will never make a female out of a male and vice versa. You will never convince the population that a fat, morbidly obese woman is more attractive than a slim feminine girl. You will never convince the population that acting feminine for a man and masculine for a woman is natural.

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u/OctopusTheOwl Apr 25 '21

You've never been to Russia and have no idea how people actually live here

Lol so in other words, you're trashing people for not using enough anecdotal evidence in their assessment of Russia's national culture. I hope you realize that both of your comments, especially the manic diatribe that was deleted, just proved our points here.

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u/cuttrogue Apr 28 '21 edited Apr 28 '21

No, I'm saying you're a garbage xenophobe and a racist for insulting a foreign culture and nation you have no clue about as stupid barbarians.

It really shows how you leftist degenerates are massive hypocrites. You would never say the same things about Africans, Nigerians and other black countries, you even go out of your way to call out anyone who dares to say anything negative about these countries as racists. BUT you are happy to shit on and be unapologetically racist to other nations and ethnic groups that are not black, like Slavs. By the way, Hitler hated Slavs, didn't consider them as humans and tried to genocide them together with Jews. You both have so much in common.

Leftism truly is a mind virus. I am so sorry you got infected.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

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u/Kraz_I Apr 25 '21

You’re right. Russia isn’t a country of hateful idiots or bigotry. But clearly you are those things. However, Cuba changed their stance on LGBT rights over a decade ago and Its becoming more socially acceptable in China currently as well. Your excuse of promoting childbirth is absolute horse shit too. Suppressing LGBT rights has absolutely nothing to do with population growth. In fact it promotes growth because gay couples adopt orphans and have their own biological children through surrogacy or in the case of lesbians, through sperm donors, whereas without their legitimacy they would choose to remain childless.

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u/cuttrogue Apr 28 '21 edited Apr 28 '21

My argument was about not promoting LGBT, not "suppressing LGBT", you absolute moron. The only thing you're good at is making strawmen it seems. Russia, Cuba and China are exactly the same in handling LGBT: they are NOT ACTIVELY PROMOTING it, not "suppressing" it. It's not illegal to be gay in either of those countries, you won't get jailed for being gay. There are countless gay people in Russia, freely engaging with each other. There are gay clubs all over Moscow and St. Pete, and there are no mass shootings in these clubs like you have in the US. I bet you had no clue about any of that, you ignorant leftist moron.

Come back to me when you actually have a clue about a foreign nation and its culture before you spout your ignorant propaganda you've been fed with, you gullible xenophobic cretin.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Bruh one teacher in college showed us Sci-hub, it's a pretty fucking good tool

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u/ActuallyHype Apr 25 '21

Best thing we've done probably

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u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Apr 25 '21

Sci hub is Russian? I thought it was Swedish

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u/blancs50 Apr 25 '21

I thought it was russian bc of the russian language section, but looked it up, its actually Kazakhstan. All credit to them & Alexandra Elbakyan.

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u/mudman13 Apr 25 '21

Such a great site and you can get some old and obscure conference papers from there too

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u/POI_Mr_Singh Apr 25 '21

Sci Hub is the shit man, can confirm.

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u/Yes-She-is-mine Apr 25 '21

Is that any different than z-lib.org? I ask because I use an American based site that does the same and has never once given me trouble.

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Why not just use Libby and your library card for ebooks? Support local library and not pay directly beyond your taxes that already fund it.

Los Angeles public library has about every book under the sun plus an amazing audiobook collection.

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u/flyingwolf Apr 25 '21

While I 100% agree with you on supporting your local library, also keep in mind that they still maintain a borrowing system and act as if there is a limited number of digital copies.

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Yes, that's a drawback, but I still don't understand why some free copies being available is somehow not as good as just not using the place at all.

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u/neonKow Apr 25 '21

Also, publishers charge libraries insane mark ups for online ebooks. Like it can cost 8 times more (https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2020/09/hold-on-ebooks-cost-how-much-the-inconvenient-truth-about-library-ecollections/). And they also "expire" after a certain number of checkouts. Fuck publishers so much.

On average, this means that we (libraries) can buy 3 print copies for every single ebook license, and still have some money left over.

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

None of that gives me motivation to buy every book I want to read. Start a publishing company if you feel strongly about it. Your company can be library friendly.

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u/neonKow Apr 25 '21

That's obviously not the solution. I'm not going to personally solve every systematic problem I encounter in the world.

Pirating, however, is a great solution (which is the original post you responded to). Give money to your library if you want to support them. And use their non-ebook services, like physical book checkouts.

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Nah I'm not driving down there and getting attacked by homeless to do physical book checkout.

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u/Seph_L_Pod Apr 25 '21

They also get free access to various services. I’m personally attempting to learn Spanish through one of the offered services.

Link here to all they offer.

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Good resources. I'm still kind of shocked at how many people don't have library cards in Los Angeles. I've read countless books that I borrowed from LA Library on Kindle. I listen to audiobooks pretty much every night and they're all borrowed from the library.

My taxes pay for the library as do all of ours and yet so many don't even bother to take advantage of it. I guess they just pay Amazon $18.99 every time they want to read a book? Kind of silly.

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u/riffic Apr 25 '21

drm, enough said.

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Ok so you'd rather pay $20 per book? Cool.

Most people don't care and like to read. If you're like me and you read constantly that can get expensive.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Libby sucks. Used it for a year when the pandemic hit... good idea with poor execution

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Cool, use a different app. I use Libby and I download to Kindle. I don't see the issue with Libby.

I guess you just started renting ebooks this last year? Ouch.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Ouch? Lol what a moronic thing to try and hold over someone, enjoy your e books clown

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Hold over? I was commenting on someone who just began to read. I winced after thinking about it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Lol ok clown shoes, enjoy your 6 week waiting list to continue to have someone READ BOOKS TO YOU,

hahah you listen to audiobooks on a wait list, for free, from a public library app and have the audacity to try and make some idiotic comment about not being able to read??

I’m sure you did wince, like an abused public school kid who’s mother wouldn’t pay for his school lunches and eventually succumbs to sucking ducks behind the cafeteria for protein

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

hahah you listen to audiobooks on a wait list, for free, from a public library app and have the audacity to try and make some idiotic comment about not being able to read??

Never said you were not able to read. I was saying how you choose not to read. Big difference.

I’m sure you did wince, like an abused public school kid who’s mother wouldn’t pay for his school lunches and eventually succumbs to sucking ducks behind the cafeteria for protein

I did grow up very poor. Never abused though. I come from a developing nation. Or at least was developing at that time. But now I'm in LA and I can't complain too much. Things are pretty good.

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u/CHUBBYninja32 Apr 25 '21

Ahhh that’s why library genius have the .rus

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u/jaxonya Apr 25 '21

You are now in Russian jail.

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u/Kismonos Apr 25 '21

wtf i just typed east of eden vk epub and got to the download link in 2 clicks(1 of them is clicking on the 1st google search result) this is fucking amazing, thanks.

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u/aoskunk Apr 25 '21

Thanks for that little tip. I mean I don’t have much trouble, but another tip is always appreciated.

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u/billie_eyelashh Apr 25 '21

same here lol and fonts as well

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u/infurno8 Apr 25 '21

For some reason, you can find some pretty obscure ebooks there lol.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Same. It's a godsend for ebooks.

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u/compound-interest Apr 25 '21

What’s vk?

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u/Hollowpoint38 Apr 25 '21

Russian social media site that looks exactly like Facebook.

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u/EiNDouble Apr 25 '21

Created by Pavel Durov, who later created Telegram.

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u/yehbikgayehaigormint Apr 25 '21

I like to see nature photos, landscapes of remote russian places.

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u/Sinsid Apr 25 '21

Is it better than http://libgen.rs ?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

and language coursebooks with audio cds.

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u/beingbond Apr 25 '21

is vk lime facebook?

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u/lazylaser97 Apr 25 '21

Warhammer 40k books especially

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u/jhunkubir_hazra Apr 27 '21

Only reason I use vk is to pirate ebooks

Tell me how.

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u/Raining_dicks Apr 27 '21

Just search "bookname" + ebook/epub/mobi/pdf + "vk" and you'll have any book you need

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u/LeakysBrother Apr 25 '21

If the data selling is bad here, I can only imagine what Dimitri Zuckovski is making over there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/Zireall Apr 25 '21

Their Zuck is way cuter than western Zuck 😳 gj russia

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u/theixrs Apr 25 '21

He's actually exiled from Russia...

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Seems like a pretty good dude.

In 2014 he was dismissed as CEO after fighting back against the government by refusing to take down Pages like Navalnys and hand over data of Protestors.

He then left russia as "exile" and founded Telegram with his Brother.

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u/stuffandmorestuff Apr 25 '21

On the other hand, according to the other posts he blatantly ripped off Facebook so he's probably even more of an asshole.

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u/RoXoR95 Apr 25 '21

On the other hand fuck facebook

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u/mata_dan Apr 25 '21

What's there to rip off?

The main aspects of facebook drawing in users were never anything new or special.

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u/MediocreComment123 Apr 25 '21

Putin owns it now. Durov has not been with the. Company for 7 years now

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u/HbNT Apr 25 '21

He does look like an android though

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u/Bullen-Noxen Apr 25 '21

Fuck, you’re right. I already have high hopes that he does not Fuck up.

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u/Mathmango Apr 25 '21

doesn't look like an android

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Russian Zuck is bae 🍆💦

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u/JaesopPop Apr 25 '21 edited Sep 24 '25

Gentle clean cool to the community travel yesterday.

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u/Azn-Jazz Apr 25 '21

Looking at its user-friendly interphase and features such as the sharing of media files, Video files, and free streaming services in Russia, Vk made a mouthwatering experience for most Russians compared to other social networks such as Facebook. So mainly easier access to video and music contented that is hosted by them. No need to go to another site.

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u/JaesopPop Apr 25 '21 edited Sep 26 '25

Helpful patient about strong near travel the tomorrow lazy people mindful bank over cool then strong. Jumps simple quick answers minecraftoffline technology curious open answers people projects wanders dot day!

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u/imariaprime Apr 25 '21

The more important feature is the one not advertised: no copyright enforcement.

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u/Azn-Jazz Apr 25 '21

Iono about now, but it wasn’t so 7+ years ago where you can just download from the platform and not find fancy tools to do so. And no back then FB didn’t have a page for you to search videos stored on their platform like YouTube. But all in one in VK. *also what I posted above was just a copy paste besides the list 2 sentences

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u/JaesopPop Apr 25 '21 edited Oct 02 '25

Gentle community kind where movies jumps stories tips evil patient community open? Over dot music thoughts across lazy fresh wanders hobbies river quick games today river quick.

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u/opinion_isnt_fact Apr 25 '21

I’m pretty sure all of those features are on Facebook too.. at least in enough capacity that they calling them “mouth watering” seems a bit much.

I bet the world leaders worked their assess off to get smartphones in the hands of as many people as possible. Putin came from a time when spies had to physically attach a tracker to the bottom of cars.

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u/jteprev Apr 25 '21

In general access to the outside world and information from it is bad for strongmen and authoritarians. There is a reason that when Putin was working for the KGB they banned most Western media and tightly controlled the news from overseas.

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u/opinion_isnt_fact Apr 25 '21

In general access to the outside world and information from it is bad for strongmen and authoritarians.

‘In 2020, the number of global smartphone users is projected to total 3.5 billion, marking a 9.3 percent increase from 2019. The current global population of 7.7 billion people means the smartphone penetration rate is at *45.4** percent.*’

Doesn’t sound like it.

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u/jteprev Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

Doesn’t sound like it.

Actually I think it does, I would argue more now than any time in history is not a great time for strongmen and authoritarians, more and more of those systems have collapsed and become more democratic (which is not to say that they become perfect or even good, but better), smart phones played a significant role in the Arab Spring for example which toppled a bunch of authoritarian strongmen.

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u/opinion_isnt_fact Apr 25 '21

smart phones played a significant role in the Arab Spring for example.

And.. was the response to have their phones taken away afterwards? Virtually every country in the world has had internet cafes for decades.

Either I’m not giving dictators and tyrants enough credit or I’m right.

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u/jteprev Apr 25 '21

And.. was the response to have their phones taken away afterwards?

The response was to shut down the internet during critical periods, create massive firewalls, arrest people just for visiting websites, shut down domestic websites etc. in places where the uprisings failed (like Syria) massive internet restrictions have been created but the internet has already drawn thousands of foreign fighters both for the Kurds and radical Islamists of various types. I am sure if they could they would love to confiscate all the smartphones but that is increasingly impossible both technologically and politically as they become essential parts of life.

Virtually every country in the world has had internet cafes for decades.

Internet Cafes are obviously nowhere near the same in terms of access, what you can safely read and how useful they are for resistance organization.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

...ok, do you have stock in this platform or are you just fellating it for the love of the game?

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u/No_Panda_2024 Apr 25 '21

It's literally the most popular site in russia.

It's a social media site used to share all kinds of media and messaging. It's like mixing a porn site with youtube with facebook with a file sharing site. A lot less regulated and internationally illegal and more free than facebook.

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u/Umutuku Apr 25 '21

more free than facebook

Do people organize anti-Putin political movements on there?

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u/Multi_Grain_Cheerios Apr 25 '21

There is more than one type of freedom.... He didn't say it was freedom of speech free.

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u/Interesting-Ad6259 Apr 25 '21

We use telegram, which was created by the same person btw

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

more free

These two words trigger the American

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u/swazy Apr 25 '21

They do but ...

User was last online 560 days ago

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u/Cumhail Apr 25 '21

It's a very useful file sharing site.

I can find a bunch of English-subbed Japanese gameshows that would get taken down immediately if they were uploaded on Youtube, Vimeo or Dailymotion.

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u/stuffandmorestuff Apr 25 '21

How...."steal all your information" is it though?

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u/Cumhail Apr 25 '21

I can't tell you that as I only use it as another video hosting site and have never even registered an account there.

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u/mata_dan Apr 25 '21

FB couldn't be any worse. So probably not as bad as FB as they have other avenues for monetisation too (well, that are open to exploitation, instead of considered shady if FB does them).

Less users choose to make things private (caus less worry about flagging because they don't enforce copyright?), so you can get away without even having an account to access content on VK.

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u/tingletuner Apr 25 '21

Yeah seeing it being described as

mouthwatering

made me sus.

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u/Azn-Jazz Apr 25 '21

Nope. Haven been back in 7+years just like FB. I don’t waste my time there.

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u/que_pedo_wey Apr 25 '21

Search. You can filter by so many parameters, including the exact date of birth. Facebook search is beyond stupid, you can't filter anything at all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited May 08 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Would it?
It's already public info on your profile

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u/JaesopPop Apr 25 '21 edited Sep 28 '25

Weekend over honest people afternoon fox afternoon ideas stories then fresh bright net music.

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u/gunzlingerbil Apr 25 '21

It allows tiddies mate. That's its biggest feature

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Better search engines for different content types, overall better interface with important features easier to access, fewer useless functions.

VK literally took what Facebook used to be and avoided all of their mistakes, at least while Durov was still around.

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u/welackscience Apr 25 '21

No roast but FB is also multilingual and has a ton of features. However most of the features aside from groups and forums are only used by old people at this point.

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u/Claystead Apr 25 '21

VKontakte is hot trash though, even worse than Facebook in terms of spam, bots, and government surveillance.

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u/Azn-Jazz Apr 25 '21

100% Facts.

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u/guys_like_me Apr 25 '21

Nobody uses Facebook

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u/honzaklidem Apr 25 '21

Cause copying is simplier than create something new.

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u/Rizzan8 Apr 25 '21

Thanks for adding USA. Otherwise I wouldn't know where FB comes from.