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A Russian ISP confirms Roskomnadzor’s Twitter-blocking blooper

This is https://speed.gulag.link/, a speedtest application that demonstrates Roskomnadzor throttling to Russian users it impacts. [credit: Jim Salter ] Last night, a confidential source at a Russian ISP reached out to us with confirmation of the titanic mistake Roskomnadzor—Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media—made when attempting to punitively throttle […]