Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor has received and complied to a court order to blacklist Telegram in the country. It did so by blocking millions of addresses, impacting plenty of unrelated services, including Nintendo Network. All three platforms using it (Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch) are now unable to access online play, and are getting error messages when attempting to. Impact varies by internet provider, since they all have blocked different addresses. According to players, Splatoon 2 is the most affected game as a result of this ban.

Nintendo has acknowledged the problem on Russian social media site VK, but has no information to share as of now. Hopefully, Russian players will be able to play online again soon.

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[pasc]

Block the entire internet, just to be safe.

Uhhh, there goes your lan cable and wlan box...

 

[PaBo]

Hopefully, Russian players will be able to play online again soon.​

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this is literally the best thing that could happen to online gaming. the cancer of online gaming riddening itself! awesome!

 

[smileyhead]

this is literally the best thing that could happen to online gaming. the cancer of online gaming riddening itself! awesome!

[Insert 'can't tell if sarcastic or serious' meme here]

 

[PaBo]

[Insert 'can't tell if sarcastic or serious' meme here]

http://bfy.tw/Hicj

 

[Captain_N]

Well i dont think the russians would block it because of piracy. The russian gonvernment was paying people to seed torrents of american content. Look at the direct connect network. Most of the hubs with over 1 PB of data are Russian hubs.
You will have to use a vpn probably.

 

[SirNapkin1334]

Well i dont think the russians would block it because of piracy. The russian gonvernment was paying people to seed torrents of american content. Look at the direct connect network. Most of the hubs with over 1 PB of data are Russian hubs.
You will have to use a vpn probably.

Russia is the Piracy capital of the world.

 

[oji]

Pirate torrent trackers are prohibited in Russia & most popular are already blocked in a same way as Telegram so you can access them only by VPN. To name a few, ru*censored*er is registered in Panama, nn*censored*ub in China & ru*censored*or in Sweden etc. But end-users still aren't punished for downloading neither paid for it

 

[Kolyasisan]

this is literally the best thing that could happen to online gaming. the cancer of online gaming riddening itself! awesome!

Ouch, now that one was harsh

 

[Jayro]

What the hell is Telegram?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

What the hell is Telegram?

Encrypted instant messaging

 

[zeveroth]

whats wrong with telegram?
is it just a bullshit strike against a free message service? or one that allows privacy?

Or just another strike against cryptocurrency

 

[SirNapkin1334]

Pirate torrent trackers are prohibited in Russia & most popular are already blocked in a same way as Telegram so you can access them only by VPN. To name a few, [redacted] is registered in Panama, [redacted] in China & [redacted] in Sweden etc. But end-users still aren't punished for downloading neither paid for it

Please remove piracy sites from your post.

 

[osaka35]

Russia is just a bit more open about their attempts to track everything. We're in the same state here in the USA, it's just a little more "nahhhh, we ain't doin that". Usually in the USA, we try and force companies to give the FBI a key or backdoor or just strong-arm encryption...because reasons. Sad stuff, at any rate.

 

[oji]

Please remove piracy sites from your post.

I didn't post any links, just a bunch of names which were on a first page of a 'russian torrent trackers' Google request, not a secret knowledge.

 

[smileyhead]

I didn't post any links, just a bunch of names which were on a first page of a 'russian torrent trackers' Google request, not a secret knowledge.

You still shouldn't post site names. There's a reason we say stuff like That ISO Site.

 

[oji]

You still shouldn't post site names. There's a reason we say stuff like That ISO Site.

ok, censored names in the post.

 

[Samsung64]

Rusia doing crazy thing year by year. They will end like Turkey banning everything

 

[chartube12]

What the hell is Telegram?

You got to be under 25 to not know what a telegram is!!!!

 

[SomeGamer]

You got to be under 25 to not know what a telegram is!!!!

But you have to be under 25 to know what Telegram is.

 

[FAST6191]

You got to be under 25 to not know what a telegram is!!!!

Live long enough and you will learn to ignore fad chat protocols and dismiss them accordingly. Like I think I am right now witnessing the start of Discord's demise as their dev/mod team seems to have caught a nasty case of the poor bans so give it a year or so...

Maybe one day we will have a proper open source (preferably client and protocol but protocol is enough), user made server option again. That said I am not sure quite how the world regressed to the current awful state it is in.