Topic: Bitcointalk has been blocked in Russia because of Gambling advertisement (Read 963 times)
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March 30, 2020, 01:04:26 PM
In my mountry Gambling is a crime. Govt can take any necessary steps to stop gambling. If they think that bitcointalk is used to promote gambling then they will be stopped bitcointalk too. But it is not a big issue because by using vpn we can easily use any website we want.
March 30, 2020, 06:14:43 AM
Most country's will blocked gambling sites but Bitcointalk.org ? that seems kinda weird, it's not even a gambling site.
In my country, the government also forbids online gambling, because it can be used for tax evasion and they can't really track what you're doing. But i think there are workarounds for this, example you could try using VPN or VPS to continue gambling.
In my country, the government also forbids online gambling, because it can be used for tax evasion and they can't really track what you're doing. But i think there are workarounds for this, example you could try using VPN or VPS to continue gambling.
I think for most countries with advance IT, even if you are using VPN or VPS, they can still detect you based on your activity from your ISP. So the only way we could make our transaction anonymous is to use bitcoin mixers. Though, I am not really advising it as the fees for this services is quite high, but if we really want to gamble at huge stake, or with huge bets, I probably suggests using mixers to make sure we could not be tracked when playing.
In terms of bitcointalk getting banned, I am having a highly suspicion regarding this, that they want the cryptocurrency as a whole to not be promoted as we know, bitcointalk is the main platform cryptocurrency users could speak and share knowledge to everyone.
March 30, 2020, 05:45:15 AM
Most country's will blocked gambling sites but Bitcointalk.org ? that seems kinda weird, it's not even a gambling site.
In my country, the government also forbids online gambling, because it can be used for tax evasion and they can't really track what you're doing. But i think there are workarounds for this, example you could try using VPN or VPS to continue gambling.
In my country, the government also forbids online gambling, because it can be used for tax evasion and they can't really track what you're doing. But i think there are workarounds for this, example you could try using VPN or VPS to continue gambling.
March 30, 2020, 05:40:36 AM
Actually kinda surprised that didn't happened earlier.
Don't think it's a big issue, since any VPN can be used to bypass this block.
Don't think it's a big issue, since any VPN can be used to bypass this block.
VPN is only for advance users, newbies don't know how to use it. sometimes they also blocked certain VPNs to access some sites they blocked on their country. Like what happen to that manager of Iost bounty last year when he suddenly need to visit China and he has to have a hard time accessing this site from there. blocked site in China can be tricky to get accessed, that's why I told you only advance users can surpass it.
March 30, 2020, 05:10:36 AM
Actually kinda surprised that didn't happened earlier.
Don't think it's a big issue, since any VPN can be used to bypass this block.
Don't think it's a big issue, since any VPN can be used to bypass this block.
March 30, 2020, 04:41:45 AM
This could stir up problem for the people that supports Bitcoin. Russia is a big country, and a lot of people that uses the coin is from the country. Bitcointalk is a place for a lot of people to share and also learn about the current trends about the currency. Hoping the banning would soon be lift up for our fellow supporters.
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March 30, 2020, 04:33:13 AM
I hope that people in Russia can still visit this forum, and the block from their government will be open because people discuss Bitstarz, and bitcointalk was coincidentally has been used for communicating with other people. But I am sure that people can still visit bitcointalk because they can use a VPN for a bridge to access this forum. Or maybe the blocked is temporary to investigate the real problem by the government. Let's hope everything will be okay.
March 30, 2020, 01:26:59 AM
That's correct. Can't reach the forum without using VPN (currently TOR instead tbh). Thanks for sharing the news thought it was an IP ban or smth 
March 30, 2020, 01:13:53 AM
I cannot find any sane reason why this forum will mimic Russia in this regard. I am convinced that this forum is independent from the whims of countries and their politicians.
For sure, Russians have enough leeway to circumvent this unfortunate decision.
I don't understand why a forum is being blocked for reasons related to gambling. This is not a gambling site, in the first place. Also, if gambling is discussed or even promoted, it does not mean it is being directed to Russia. This is a global forum. And everybody in here should be fully aware of his/her country's domestic laws.
Well, they have their own reasons and laws for that. Better much respect that tbh. Sides, the internet has a lot of ways to bypass the bans set by their country so I doubt that those legit users from Russia would quit just like that cause of the ban. I also doubt Russia has the ability to ban gambling ads selectively, I doubt they would put that much effort when they can just ban the site entirely. There's also the negative notion of what gambling is, so can't really blame them. Probably more than 7 out of 10 people, if asked, would answer that gambling is a negative influence and most would answer that only bad people would gamble. And technically it isn't wrong, but it's more related to the person itself rather than gambling, but who would care about that now no? For sure, Russians have enough leeway to circumvent this unfortunate decision.
I don't understand why a forum is being blocked for reasons related to gambling. This is not a gambling site, in the first place. Also, if gambling is discussed or even promoted, it does not mean it is being directed to Russia. This is a global forum. And everybody in here should be fully aware of his/her country's domestic laws.
March 30, 2020, 12:15:47 AM
For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?
I cannot find any sane reason why this forum will mimic Russia in this regard. I am convinced that this forum is independent from the whims of countries and their politicians.
March 29, 2020, 11:13:38 PM
For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?
Nope will not happens, unless Putin ordered Trump to do it, which doesn't worth the effort 
And i doubt theymos will erase one of the most active local board, even today i count many posts, so no worries about our Russian friends!
. Nonetheless, I hope this is not final — I hope they will revoke their decision. I cannot find any sane reason why this forum will mimic Russia in this regard. I am convinced that this forum is independent from the whims of countries and their politicians.
For sure, Russians have enough leeway to circumvent this unfortunate decision.
I don't understand why a forum is being blocked for reasons related to gambling. This is not a gambling site, in the first place. Also, if gambling is discussed or even promoted, it does not mean it is being directed to Russia. This is a global forum. And everybody in here should be fully aware of his/her country's domestic laws.
March 29, 2020, 10:12:21 PM
For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?
Nope will not happens, unless Putin ordered Trump to do it, which doesn't worth the effort And i doubt theymos will erase one of the most active local board, even today i count many posts, so no worries about our Russian friends!
. Nonetheless, I hope this is not final — I hope they will revoke their decision. 
March 29, 2020, 09:45:40 PM
But the main problem with TOR is that it is too slow. For live betting, it can be very difficult to use TOR.
Betting is a disease, other use cases are fine.
The truth is that Tor is not slow, I'd say that it's comparable to mobile network around the dense crowd. So it's more than enough for most of the activities with exception for media content because I doubt that the donated bandwith will be sufficient for 4K streaming.
Most of the real issues, however, are caused by DDoS protection services like Cloudflare. Cloudflare has a support for Privacy Pass which may be used to bypass annoying CAPTCHA verifications, but their competitors are not so progressive.
March 29, 2020, 09:39:03 PM
I think some sites like YouTube would ban advertisements about online gambling too.However, this doesn't surprise me at all, it's a normal and ecpected thing for Russia. this ban happened but I don't think the Russian community here will be affected, they can always find a method to still access the site. Russians would still be able to access these sites since they have a lot of ways to cover ourselves like VPN and proxies.
March 29, 2020, 06:03:12 PM
Thanks to VPN companies which will be a quick solution for bypassing the website filtering by governments. The Russia is not on the way to the absolute freedom for gamblers and this is understandable for former CCCP country. I am sure average gamblers will find a alternative option for accessing both Bitcointalk and gambling sites.
March 29, 2020, 04:58:43 PM
Nope will not happens, unless Putin ordered Trump to do it, which doesn't worth the effort
And i doubt theymos will erase one of the most active local board, even today i count many posts, so no worries about our Russian friends!
And i doubt theymos will erase one of the most active local board, even today i count many posts, so no worries about our Russian friends!
Anyone from Russia?
Here in Italy is a common thing to use Google DNS or other free DNS like OpenDNS.
I think there will be the same and they even notice the "block" since it should be a DNS block from ISP.
March 29, 2020, 04:55:57 PM
For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?
Nope will not happens, unless Putin ordered Trump to do it, which doesn't worth the effort And i doubt theymos will erase one of the most active local board, even today i count many posts, so no worries about our Russian friends!
March 29, 2020, 09:58:58 AM
But banning the forum itself is unnecessary,
Indeed, because this forum just serve as the platform for spreading news. It doesn't necessarily mean that it has sometjing to do with the shady stuffs started by scammers 
. Don't get me wrong, I really love how Russia put attention regarding such matter becuase this means that their government really cares. However I think they're overreacting already. For this reason, do you guys think the Russian local board will be erased soon?
March 29, 2020, 09:35:32 AM
strange that they block a crypto forum all because there were gambling ads. they could just bann the gambling sites since online gambling is illegal to them. a message could be banning cryptocurrency
This is how they deal with those scammers but unfortunately, Our whole community gets banned too. This is because they don't want to furthermore take any risk in this site. that's why the whole site was banned. we need to report those scammers as soon as possible to prevent this kind of thing to happen in the future. If I'm not mistaken, this site is also banned in China and now in Russia. this is not good news, there are lots of investors in those Countries.
They can just ban every online gambling sites and not exactly the forum. Anyways, if this is how they solve the issues or how they dealt regarding this issues, we can't do anything about it.
Do you have a source where you read or heard about bitcointalk was banned in China?
March 29, 2020, 09:21:25 AM
strange that they block a crypto forum all because there were gambling ads. they could just bann the gambling sites since online gambling is illegal to them. a message could be banning cryptocurrency
This is how they deal with those scammers but unfortunately, Our whole community gets banned too. This is because they don't want to furthermore take any risk in this site. that's why the whole site was banned. we need to report those scammers as soon as possible to prevent this kind of thing to happen in the future. If I'm not mistaken, this site is also banned in China and now in Russia. this is not good news, there are lots of investors in those Countries.
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