In the best tradition of post-liberal societies, they will be managed and enforced arbitrarily, as political conditions merit.
āreverse proxiesā
In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though they originated from the proxy server itself.
Just incase you didnāt know.
Noting that [circumvention tools] have legitimate usesā¦
Such as accessing data the government doesnāt want you to access? I donāt suppose free speech is legitimate in Russia, but it still is in many places.
āmoots banā what use such an odd word, does the writer think it makes them cleverererere
Why does the speaker use such odd words? Does the speaker think it makes himself sound scatological?
Do they think e.g. Reddit would cooperate and give the Russian āauthoritiesā the IPs of the ones who discuss this stuff? Would BB do so?
Will russia ever get itās shit together? Theyāre like that addicted, abusive family you hear screaming or playing very loud music from way, way down the street;
every Saturday night thereās cop cars parked on their lawn, flashing lightsā¦but nothing ever gets sorted.
Often times, a break up is a better medicine than apathy.
It certainly looks to me like the author was going for the concept of āmutingā discussion (via the censorwall and government actions to reduce discussion of censorship). Itās great that someone understands that mute and moot are two different words, but letās try to take it one more step and understand the definitions and use cases. In the context of moot as a verb in this case, it seems that the use is closer to antithetical to the authorās intent than supportive of it. Itās sad that editors have gone the way of the dodo in online media.
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Itās great that someone understands that mute and moot are two different words, but letās try to take it one more step and understand the definitions and use cases.[/quote]
The ban is what is being mooted. Thereās no reason āmuteā would make any sense in that spot, it would only make sense later in the sentence: Russia moots a ban which would mute discussion about VPNs, etc.
Letās understand the definitions, indeed:
Moot (verb): to present or introduce (any point, subject, project, etc.) for discussion.
Reading the headline the gist of āmootā I got was that the Russians had put forward the idea of a ban, which is what the article is about, donāt read anything confusing about the headline compared to the article.
Mebbe itās just down to my playing White Wolfās Werewolf: The Apocalypse where the term is used for meetings of werewolfs so thereās no confusion AFAIC.
As usual the ban itself is going to penalise the law abiding but hey-ho
Man, I havenāt heard anything about that game in -years-
ā¦do people still play? I always heard it was less edgy than other white wolf stuff, and more to do with developing neat stories.
I believe the folks teaching sentence comprehension left before the editors.
apparently moots in this context means considers, or not.
This is the kind of shit Theresa Mayās deranged fantasies are about. The Home Office Mad Cat Lady would love to pull this off.
In my experience (over 15 years ago) it was definitely structured to encourage more constructive group play with the pack dynamic rather than the thin veneer of pleasantness & co-operation of ācoteriesā in Vampire: The Masquerade barely concealing sociopathy, the interminable philosophy & semantics debates of Mage: The Ascension, the venomous argument waiting to happen that was the Wraith: The Oblivion Shadows rule component or the pointless but pretty head-scratcher Changeling: The Dreaming.
Havenāt played it in 15 years personally, but I figure people still do - Iām currently playing in a Shadowrun 3rd ed (1998) game because thereās no need to fork out the cash to move to 4th or 5th ed - thereās no hardware obsolescence or compatibility issues, the worst case scenario is the book falls apart, but then thereās always PDFsā¦
But if they want to illegalise discussions about how to get round your stateās obstacles to discussions about your stateās censorship system, wonāt they also have to illegalise discussions about how to get around your stateās obstacles to discussions about how to get round your stateās obstacles to discussions about your stateās censorship system?
āapparentlyā
In a world where Tolkeinās āentmootā was part of the top 2002 worldwide box officeā¦
Kids today and their inability to pick up/google a dictionaryā¦
(on the other hand) I once knew someone who insisted that Tolkeinās stories were originally written in Old English. So much facepalmingā¦
Comparing mad cat ladies to Theresa May is an insult to all mad cat ladies.
Maybe we should call all paranoid authoritarians Home Secretaries instead.
