GeneralOn March 8, 2022 by Jonathan ZdziarskiIn the past few days, a number of 2022-3-9 05:2:17 Author: www.zdziarski.com(查看原文) 阅读量:28 收藏
On March 8, 2022 by Jonathan Zdziarski
In the past few days, a number of websites I’ve used have announced they have blocked all Russian IPs from access to their site. There are countless articles about the importance of continuing access to information for the Russian people, and the chilling implications of censorship this position involves – so I won’t debate that here. What I do suggest to everyone considering this, is instead to take this opportunity to speak to and inform the Russian people, and provide them with crucial information or even trusted tools.
A simple .htaccess file can redirect browsers with a Russian region set rather easily:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^ru [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ https://www.yourdomain.com/ru.html [L]
</IfModule>
If, instead of blocking Russians (many of whom are victims themselves of state sponsored disinformation campaigns), you were to instead redirect them to a page with a message, or information, a rebroadcast of a news feed, or even locally hosted copies of trusted tools (such as a VPN and Tor, for example), you might actually make a greater impact than simply blocking them.
If you are looking to write a message in Russian, Google Translate is better than nothing. You can display Cyrillic characters using a utf-8 tag:
<html> <head> </head> <body> <meta charset=utf-8> Российское правительство лжет вам о войне на Украине. Путин напал без всякой причины и продолжал убивать тысячи невинных мужчин, женщин и детей. Мир против него. Не верьте российским СМИ. </body> </html>
Friends of mine tell me they believe Russia’s censorship capabilities to be far less sophisticated than China. Advanced content-based filtering doesn’t seem to be in their wheelhouse, and based on numerous public articles, the core of their capabilities seem to rely on IP and DNS blocking. Imagine if a million websites all used a technique such as this to send information to Russian citizens, or provide them with news they currently cannot see, or access to tools they currently cannot download. It’s easy to block one website. It’s much harder to keep up with an ever changing sea of websites disseminating information the Russian government doesn’t want their people to see. Something as simple as old school web page proxying could have a demonstrative effect at reaching the Russian people. Blocking them outrightly, however, only stands to strengthen the signal coming from Russian media.
This is an opportunity to exercise your own rights to free speech in a perfectly legal and civil manner, and potentially impact those who are not as fortunate to have been born in a free country.
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