Topic: Bitcointalk has been blocked in Russia because of Gambling advertisement - page 4. (Read 999 times)

They will only ban crypto if they want to be left behind in the world. All the nations who are adopting bitcoins will have a much better future than those who are planing to impose bans.



Why do they ban the things which can never be ban in the modern digital world 

I guess it makes sense that somebody in Russia had to do something to make it look like he or she had a job to do;) I mean, should they ban Yahoo because it also has some forums where gambling happens? Or should they ban also Facebook because it has groups also dedicated to gambling? I guess,,, it has to do?

The ban will be temporal, it is important to have a moderate lifestyle at the moment. Lets put our money to use on what we keep us alive and those around for this period, after now we can go back. Government benefit from gambling in one way or other and Russia has lots of gamblers. After the pandemic is over and we see no relax move by government then I could have a different opinion.

I have visited Russia and in every major city, in every nook and corner you can find illegal casinos. The ban on legal gambling is just one of the tools for the government to get bribes. Most of the illegal casino operators are foreigners (mostly Turks and Azeris) and they pay a certain amount of bribes to the authorities every month, so that they can operate without any harassment from the cops.

Agreed. I visited China a bit more than a year ago and I also recall having problems viewing a number of international websites during my stay there that I managed to almost immediately circumvent with the several paid VPN applications I use, though I did have some problems occasionally because the government's always working to stop VPNs whenever possible. There's generally a pretty high amount of people that use VPNs in countries that have restrictive internet access  even though most of them usually stay quiet about it.

I still find it absolutely ridiculous that an entire forum was banned on their end for just one thread, though. I have no idea what their government's opinion towards cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is, but I guess it wasn't very positive in the first place for this to happen.

This how Russia ban web-pages. Same was done with larges torrent tracker rutracker.org. It was banned by government on Russian territory, and in few hours tracker released a guide how to visit the page and use vpn or other services. That ban was discussed for months and was evaded in just 2 hours lol.



As it is said, everything was already shown in Simpsons 

Yes, I know what you mean. Nothing is impossible, but government efforts are just a form of concern shown to the world that they reject and prohibit gambling activities both physical casinos and online. Regardless of whether or not they obey the rules by their citizens, I am sure there are still other ways to access gambling sites because they still have the internet. Nothing is impossible, maybe it is the right understanding at this time. But clearly I do not agree with the actions of the government there that blocked the crypto discussion site.

I think VPN will also help Russian users access the forum as usual. But still the governments policy of blocking crypto discussion sites like bitcointalk is a mistake for me personally. They must reconsider this blocking and of course all forum users from Russia want the same thing and they want to get the freedom to be able to access the forum and have discussions.

LOL, even if the government has to take decisive action against anyone who violates it, then I dont think the government will arrest, pursue the perpetrators or other anticipatory actions and I dont think this is the right step to take. Accessing the bitcointalk forum is not a crime and I dont think they should do it. Hopefully Indonesia does not do the same thing.

Well, it makes sense in a way that Russia has been a strict government about gambling and its discussions, so it is not a shock that they would ban the whole website as well. However, Russian people know about VPN very well because their government likes to ban stuff here and there so they got to use VPN very commonly, a lot of people in nations that likes to ban websites actually use VPN very well, both free and paid versions, I personally live in a nation like that and I use 3 different free VPN because they have a limit and I use them in turns for example so that it never ends and restarts every month.

So, bitcointalk will probably not see all that much drop in users from Russia, maybe a bit of it decide to not come anymore but we will still see a lot for sure.

It's like the Indonesian government blocking Reddit because of porn content there. Agree, it's ridiculous. Anyway, if only for accessing bitcointalk, I think any VPN would do fine. What will the government do? Arresting people for reading/posting on random threads here?

Anyway, AFAIK only online-gaming that is illegal in Russia, physical casinos are okay. https://www.casino.org/blog/russia-and-gambling-whats-the-story/

However, accessing gambling sites is a different matter; it's slightly more serious than just accessing bitcointalk.

The solution is easy if the Russian can subscribe to a VPN plan then he can have access there are free VPN so they can still access the forum , we have a lot of Russian brothers here and they are not here for the gambling sites only but more so on the technology and interest they have on Cryptocurrency which they get their source from Bitcointalk, I'm sure they will find a way.

Maybe their Government ban the whole forum but there is a lot of alternatives to access this forum, and of those is using VPN, so technically, there is no point on banning the forum just because of those gambling advertisements. There is this saying says "If you really want something, you'll find a way"


Illegal or not, gambling is still gambling. If they truly care about their youth getting infected by gambling, they should turn down all of the casinos in their country, they might ban also the internet down since everything is in google nowadays, if you know what I mean.

Russia's ban on this forum has disturbed me a lot, since yesterday I have noticed a decrease in Russian users, i think gambling in Russia is free, and there are a lot of Russian gamblers in this forum, and many of them are very good. Russia was failed by this ban, but Russian gamblers are able to find a solution to this ban.

Illegal gambling in Russia is a form of government concern for their young population. This is because the rapid growth of physical casinos there is feared to be able to affect many young people who will later become a problem for the government and since then the government has set the status of gambling there as illegal. But I am quite curious about the actions of the government that blocked Russian  access to this bitcoin forum, I think this is ridiculous and I do not expect that the government there will also make illegal cryptocurrency. The government must block online gambling sites without having to block access to bitcoin or other cryptocurrency forum, imo.

That's a stupid decision from Russian I think. They could have blocked or ban gambling from their country. That would make sense. They could have simply block all the gambling site as like our country did. That will be a great loss for the gambling industry though, at least for now because most of the gambling sites are now lacking of gambler due to the corona virus affect in all the matches.

Nah that can't just be the reason behind the blacklist, maybe they're cooking up something juicy but just want to use this current reason as an excuse in attacking a cryptocurrency focus forum. The know majority of the discussion ongoing on the forum is more related to cryptocurrency as a whole than any other discussion like gambling, politics etc.

What's Russia government reaction to the cryptocurrency adoption debate, have their reaction been positive or negative. Before now has cryptocurrency related media platforms been attacked? Getting some clear answers to these questions might give us more idea on what's actually going on there.

The block is most certainly political and the gambling part was just a reason to throw to the public. If there would have been no gambling, they would have found another reason.
And as said, the block can be easily avoided. Just because politics and computer science are not BFF.

That's useless they cannot stop gamblers and Cryptocuurrency supporters from log in and accessing Bitcointalk they have a VPN to rely on, and Bitcointalk are all about Cryptocurrency topics it just happen that there are gambling sites that accepts Cryptocurrency so they are part of the category of Bitcointalk there are other countries that should be doing those countries with hard stance in gambling.

We all know that for how many years, Russia still don't adapt to what we called cryptocurrency because they think that this is a home for those scammers. Their mindset about crypto is that it will just be a bad influence to their economy as it enter their country. Gambling should be their focus and not the forum itself. It is not only gambling that is focused here in bitcointalk, but also topics that will help our community to understand the value of crypto. They should only ban the gambling website, or they should create an adblocker for gambling sites. The government of Russia is not that easy to persuade to engage in using a crypto to their economy, like what I've said, it is because of those fraud and scammers that can get a lot of victim and abuse the ignorance of people to cryptocommunity.

This ^^

There are always ways around restrictions like this. Quite petty by Russia to ban the whole site but they have form for these kind of draconian measures.

Lol what a decision. Blocking access to a thread created on a site 4 years ago. 

Russian government: What is this, lets see... I don't understand anything so we will just block access to the whole thing. Problem solved.
Use TOR or private socks5 and nothing is blocked.