Holy shit. The Russian gov send in an abuse request for the @Bellingcat to be removed from mstdn.social :amaze: I am not gonna comply, and have replied to Hetzner No way I'm gonna let the evils of the gremlin dictate stuff on anything I host - ThreadSky

stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy • 79 days ago

Holy shit.

The Russian gov send in an abuse request for the @Bellingcat to be removed from mstdn.social :amaze:

I am not gonna comply, and have replied to Hetzner

No way I'm gonna let the evils of the gremlin dictate stuff on anything I host

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btp.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux You know you're doing something right when you get emails from The Kremlin asking to take shit down. Keep up the great work!

@Bellingcat

iamdavidobrien.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

Good for you, @stux

@Bellingcat

Raccoon.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy•77 days ago

@stux
This is just the latest in a string of problems I've been hearing about with Hetzner as a hosting provider: perhaps you should consider moving.
If @Bellingcat needs to go somewhere else, or wants to create a mirror somewhere, there are plenty of servers that would be happy to do so, with […]

stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•77 days ago

@Raccoon @Bellingcat It's no worry 😉

Hetzner is okay with it and just ignores their requests!

https://mstdn.social/@stux/113662573364116275

handle.invalid•78 days ago

@stux

mv abuse.txt /dev/null

james-rice.bsky.social•79 days ago

Well... that happened... :S

ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat 👏🏿✊🏿

jackyan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•77 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Awesome, go #Hetzner!

jackyan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux Good luck, hope you prevail! Following @Bellingcat now.

stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

If we do need to comply with Hetzner on this, I'm gonna look into an option to get mstdn.social in-home, like literally so they won't be able to touch anything

But that's a last resort since I do not have the hardware not money for that currently

At least there's options just in case

@Bellingcat

handle.invalid•78 days ago

@stux I guess Hetzner just forwards it without any opinion. I wouldn't panic. Russia doesn't have any jurisdiction in Germany or the Netherlands. It's pure bluff.

paul.oldfriends.live.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Now might be a good time to do a in-instance pop-up notification to your users and warning that you may experience downtime and why.

forward.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat

Have to wonder how #Bluesky could stand up to this kind of pressure. Long live decentralization and the #fediverse. Thanks, Stux.

dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Hetzner is a fucking clowncar for not routing mail from *.ru to /dev/null (or a public laughing stock hall of shame).

stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

BTW

Please feel free to send some fun mails to that address :cat_hug_triangle:

Keep the fuckers busy for a whie

com.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux That email address appears it might have a unique username component, associated just with this case or a specific office. I suspect Roskomnadzor has dealt with email bombs before.

antibot4navalny.bsky.social•79 days ago

Wrong: its name corresponds to the number of legislation act violated: https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD_%E2%84%96_398-%D0%A4%D0%97_2013_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0

antibot4navalny.bsky.social•79 days ago

*enforced, not violated to be more precise

roryr6.bsky.social•79 days ago

But I imagine they use the exact same formatting of the address.

Disclaimer: Please do not use the internet for malicious means

stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

Dear Putler,

Go fuck yourself to hell.

Sincerely

Robbe-Duesseldorf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux
Dear russian dictatorship:
Go fuck yourself, if you are still flexible enough

#taurusforukraine #supportUkraine #PutinIsaWarCriminal

peccatummihzamiz.bsky.social•79 days ago

Fuck yeah, gaan met die banaan! Heerlijk, bedankt voor de heldere en harde reactie!

tobi.dz.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux got something similar some time ago, replied almost the same, was good for Hetzner 😅. You are just required to answer, and “fck you” is sufficient.

MissScott01.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat
Very sorry you have to deal with this. Not my instance but happy to chip in if/when needed.
#FediSolidarity

jukka-p-seppala.bsky.social•79 days ago

🎯

plsik.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat SHTPTN!

ChemicalEyeGuy.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat A stuck pig squeaks. #Russia is the pig, and its days are numbered.

reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Watch out, they might fine you more money than has existed in all of history https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux I wish you luck. If I understand correctly, Hetzner has a history of over-complying with such requests. 😬

wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat

but every media outlet should really have their own server on the fedi. this is our killer app for journalistic freedom. why AP should win.

it's why I always bring up @mondoweiss already running their own server. I'm sure they are constantly pissing off the Israeli govt, who […]

Robbe-Duesseldorf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat
Following Bellingcat seems to be a nice thing...

michaelgraaf.cheeseburger.social.ap.brid.gy•77 days ago

@stux Thanks for update. Good precedent: Hetzner ignores (Russian) govt takedown demand.

wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat
btw. since you're hosting users likely to be targeted by a government:

After dealing with this abuse request stuff, you might want to take a look at this, if you haven't already: https://www.devever.net/~hl/xmpp-incident

tpo-asd.bsky.social•78 days ago

📌

jorgecandeias.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat

The best way to fight this?

Each censorship attempt equals a donation to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to whip these mofos' nazi ass.

Telling them so. "Thank you. Your latest attempt at censorship eared x$ for the UAF", or something like that.

agood1.bsky.social•79 days ago

Do a thingy and I might sign up to that.

toad.city•79 days ago

How did I not know you were on Bsky?!?!

tpo-asd.bsky.social•78 days ago

📌

Powerfromspace1.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat good luck it's decentralized architecture for a reason

fediverse.youronly.one•77 days ago

@stux Congratulations! It's victory! @Bellingcat

cliodunn.bsky.social•79 days ago

Thank you, stux. They must be smoking something if they think Mastodon ninjas are pushovers. You rule. 💪🏼

mysztaerrie.bsky.social•79 days ago

Message to the Russian Government and Putin

liilliil.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat

Let’s see how their ban will work, it’s quite interesting… 🤔

jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•77 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat
Good on you. They can't Novichok every mastodon admin.

ives.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Sent some money to help with the hosting costs because of this.
Thank you for hosting mstdn.social, all the time you put into it, and dealign with harassment like this.

paul.oldfriends.live.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux Hey @mookie This thread made me think of your "Best to avoid Hetzner" posts a few days ago.

tpo-asd.bsky.social•78 days ago

reference? Can't find it

paul.oldfriends.live.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Word!

thegoonkills.bsky.social•79 days ago

Tell them to eat shit seeing as they are Russia and you don't live in their dictatorship.

dieterjosef.bsky.social•79 days ago

"You are in a dictatorship, and also in an incompetent one."

thegoonkills.bsky.social•79 days ago

"You may have noticed that you are Russia, and I am not a citizen of Russia and in fact live in another country. As such, your laws don't apply to me. So, fuck you.

doclt.bsky.social•79 days ago

I think he should be sweet and polite about his refusal. Because unfortunately, Putin tends to send assassins after people who irritate him even if they’re in the western world. This does not mean complying, it just means don’t *escalate* hostilities.

Badger-AF.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Russia, if you're listening:

go fuck yourself.

thomash5a1.bsky.social•79 days ago

Why dont we cut all Internet cables to and from fcking Russia? Why?

stardustsleep.bsky.social•79 days ago

I dont think the people living in russia should suffer because of their government, if anything, I think they need another revolution

roryr6.bsky.social•79 days ago

Russia should be cut off completely, no medicine, food, fuel, tech, parts, machines, anything. Let them eat themselves from the inside out

pata.bsky.social•79 days ago

You literally don't want to do that.

roryr6.bsky.social•79 days ago

I do, yes. Why wouldn't we want to do that, humanitarian reasons? lol

pata.bsky.social•79 days ago

lol stupid gringo

roryr6.bsky.social•78 days ago

Great argument, you have really changed my mind

bruce-hudson.bsky.social•79 days ago

Because genocide is bad.

(Do you really need to ask?)

hoagie-pastramo.bsky.social•78 days ago

We have no obligation to do business with or assist Russia.

roryr6.bsky.social•78 days ago

What do you mean? Cutting Russia off from the rest of the world isn't genocide

NorthantsGreens.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat streisand effect in

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OutofPrintArchive.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat

Just want to say thank you!

xs4me2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•78 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat

Great joke, isn't it... 😬

martinlentink.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat
Tell 'em to go autofornicate.

recursiveempathy.bsky.social•79 days ago

They are sending such emails to all service providers, usually get ignored (unless they report some sort of actual abuse).

In case of no reply/no action, they just block website in russia

This how Roscomnadzor works.

Your service provider likely just followed you a complaint for you to check

recursiveempathy.bsky.social•79 days ago

To note - they start with block of certain webpages, but in the end whole website is blocked.

They banned viber like a couple days ago.

Shitshow

stuartl.mastodon.longlandclan.id.au.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux Sounds like @Bellingcat could use a couple of mirror accounts.

To rkn.gov.ru I refer to the attached image.

dudegeorg.bsky.social•79 days ago

Putain, go fuck yourself and slava Ukraine!

cybertailor.craba.cab.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux Fediverse is sort of resilent to individual server blocks, because all content stays accessible via server-to-server federation

Nelfan.mastodon.zaclys.com.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux
@Bellingcat I don't see any recent post about Russia or Ukraine in @Bellingcat 's timeline. Is there anything I've been missing ? Or is it a long prepared war against any potential threat to the Kremlin's crappy propaganda ?

doclt.bsky.social•79 days ago

Maybe they said something about Trump or Syria.

rhys.mastodon.rhys.wtf.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat Thank you for posting this and thank you for your excellent response.

There's no end to how insidious Russian manipulation is in trying to shift views, and there's much too much apologia for it online — including on the Fediverse.

Being open and transparent about it like […]

Lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•79 days ago

@stux @Bellingcat wow, they don't tell you about this at Mastodon Admin School!

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