LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
As a Russian citizen, I used LinkedIn heavily to find jobs in Europe (along with stackoverflow.com/jobs). I keep a lot of contacts there (e.g. former colleagues and European recruiters, some of them are very helpful).<p>I found it's alarming that LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. Blocking LinkedIn significantly reduces chances to find a job in Europe.<p>But I expected that since I watched closely on new laws restricting internet freedom in Russia.<p>Official motivation behind this law is to prevent US spying on Russian citizens (this law was proposed after Snowden's scandal).<p>Of course, this motivation was a lie as everything else which came out of dirty rotten mouths of nasty Kremlin bastards.<p>The real motivation is that the Kremlin loves to spy on its own citizens. And they already did that for a long time.<p>The problem is that these anti-freedom laws do bother only very small percentage of Russians. The rest of Russia won't even notice if Kremlin completely shuts down access to the global internet. Heck, the majority of Russians doesn't even bother to learn <i>elementary</i> English!<p><i>Stupid</i> people buy everything Kremlin tells them, including version about protecting Russian citizens from US NSA.<p>The general principle is that any government is constantly trying to expand itself and limit citizen's freedoms. The only force which can prevent government from endlessly limiting citizen's freedoms is the majority of citizens (definitely not a minority of non-rich citizens). Every freedom above what masses asking for is only at mercy of the government's bueracrats.<p>It means that in absolutely any country <i>masses</i> fully deserve their government.<p>I wrote more details about this principle here:<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-living-in-totalitarian-states-love-their-dictators-1/answer/Eldar-Gaynetdinov?srid=xsEM" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-living-in-totalitarian-s...</a><p>So I consider myself as a part of absolute tiny minority of Russian citizens which has no voice at all (thanks to backward masses).<p>That's why I left Russia and I hope forever!<p>I think LinkedIn could be unblocked if LinkedIn agrees to meet these crazy requirements. Even if LinkedIn would be unblocked, it won't change sad state of freedoms in Russia.<p>P.S. I hope to get rid of <i>toxic</i> Russian citizenship in the future.