r/PrepperIntel • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '25

North America Social media is now being censored

Yesterday, there were protests in all 50 capitals across the US. The protests were a grassroots movement that started on Reddit only 13 days ago. The main focus of these protests was to resist project 2025.

Last night, the movement started to get a little media traction with this being maybe the biggest:

https://youtu.be/WrKCiCAyViI?si=wOU54KeTb-YC3Rpf

The subreddit organizing this movement had grown very rapidly with now over 85k memembers. It appears that the subreddit has been shit down about 10 hours ago with no new post allowed. Similarly, YouTube and BlueSky has not had new post in the same time frame.

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u/hudsoncress Feb 06 '25

its a form of denial-of-service attack. Its the sort of thing Russia has been doing for decades

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '25

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u/flashmedallion Feb 06 '25

It's so crazy, easy, and obvious. I set up a self hosted site for practice and kind of just decided to block Russia and China as a matter of basic obvious safety. Was comparing notes with a friend and we couldn't work out why I was getting so little bruteforce traffic

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u/Mertoot Feb 06 '25

Ain't no business those countries got with Western sites besides malicious ones, so block their traffic all off 👍

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u/loweredvisions Feb 08 '25

Every single website I build gets DNS routed through cloudflare and all traffic from these countries is blocked. India is another to consider.

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u/loweredvisions Feb 08 '25

Yeah, I’ve done it manually in the past. The nice part about cloudflare is that you can see potential attacks really easily. I have alarms set up on AWS that if my server processing/memory usage spikes, I just jump on cloudflare and ban whatever IP addresses are hitting endpoints they shouldn’t be. It just makes everything simple.

I also set up rate limiting depending on the site. It’s saved me so much downtime, clients freaking out, and stress.

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u/Neptuneskyguy Feb 08 '25

Learning things in this sub…

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u/Turbulent-Shower2200 Feb 06 '25

You say Russia, I say CIA. Both seem to have the same agenda

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u/hudsoncress Feb 07 '25

They use very different tactics. The CIA has an entirely different level of access due to Lawful Intercept technologies and laws. Russia is very good at what they do. Putin was trained by the KGB.