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About LinkBacksThe Roskomnadzor agency in Russia has blocked Amazon Cloud service, which could "spell mayhem" for over 21.4 million users in Russian each month.
Read more here: http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/...haos-in-russiaAccording to Russian newspaper Izvestia, users of Netflix, Airbnb, Twitter and Dropbox, which all use Amazon hosting, could experience problems. Russian media watchdog Rosmomnadzor added Amazon to its blacklist at the request of the Federal Tax Service, on the basis that one of its pages hosted an advert for “888poker”, with a link to download the online poker service.
“Amazon [...] does not care about the customer, placing content there. Roskomnadzor performs a control function, it has to block a site that violates the law of Russia,” said head of the Russian Public Centre for Internet Technology, Sergei Grebennikov.
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24 June 2016, 9:36 am #1
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Russia blocks Amazon Cloud service due to 888poker ad
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24 June 2016, 2:35 pm #2
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Interesting - I block AWS simply because all the traffic is bots and scrapers.
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25 June 2016, 7:06 am #3
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It's not blocked any longer
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