Bug 23639

Summary:	http://gnome-look.org/ & KDE-look.org are banned in Russia
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Roman Fomin <sodix89>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Roman Fomin 2018-10-04 21:06:38 CEST

Description of problem:
The story. Russian gov banned telegram IP pool and their servers, with so they banned this sites, and now part of DE functionality are blocked by default.
Need workaround which works out of the box. Of course old users could use VPN, but let's try to think about new ones.

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Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-10-06 10:06:47 CEST

(In reply to Roman Fomin from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> The story. Russian gov banned telegram IP pool and their servers, with so
> they banned this sites, and now part of DE functionality are blocked by
> default.
> Need workaround which works out of the box. Of course old users could use
> VPN, but let's try to think about new ones.
> 


Sorry, this isn't something Mageia should solve, it would be a waste of energy if every separate Linux distribution would try to create its own workaround.

Can you contact the Russian government and ask them to only block telegram, but nothing else on those sites?

If that isn't a solution, then ask opendesktop.org, kde.org and gnome.org whether they plan on providing a workaround.

CC: (none) => marja11
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID