<story><title>Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-protests/thousands-of-russians-protest-against-internet-restrictions-idUSKBN1QR0HI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterZhizhin</author><text>Russian here. I live in Moscow. I&amp;#x27;ve just came back from the rally.
Interned at an IT company in Switzerland and US.
My Digital Ocean VPS IP address was blocked in Russia due to this crazy thing going on with the Internet here. Even though it was a private service that is not exposed to the global network.
AMA.</text></comment>
<story><title>Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-protests/thousands-of-russians-protest-against-internet-restrictions-idUSKBN1QR0HI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>The unfortunate part about this is that there&amp;#x27;s a lot of really talented network engineers who are from Russia (or Ukraine, or Belarus, or other former soviet states). The high quality of math education is part of it, totally subjective personal theory of course...&lt;p&gt;A lot of the most talented Russian network engineers don&amp;#x27;t want to work for an autocratic regime. I&amp;#x27;ve met at least a half dozen that now work for international ISPs you would see on a top-30 list for CAIDA ASRank, none of which are Russian ISPs. They&amp;#x27;re living outside Russia, enjoying actual free speech and human rights, and making a better salary.</text></comment>