This is excellent. If you look elsewhere on the Internet you will find that most of the Russian tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated "on mission" for a couple of months. Then they get orders to proceed into Ukraine, probably spun without any collateral information or lies. At this point under DDoS their usual news sources are GONE. That means no propaganda available from the Russian government. The only sources available to them, if they get access to them, are saying that they're the bad guys and that is soul crushingly demotivating when you don't know why you are where you are.
They have provided a "user-friendly ddos tool" here [1] as discussed on reddit [2]. This does exactly what you'd expect it to do – it makes a large number of connections every second. It's completely and utterly dumb (and beware clicking the link!) but I imagine that such attempts sufficiently at scale are large enough to have a significant effect.<p>Whether or not rt.com going down internationally materially affects Vladimir's plans or place in the world, however, is another question.<p>[1] <a href="https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/" rel="nofollow">https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/</a>
[2] <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t18qm4/you_can_ddos_russian_government_websites_from/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t18qm4/you_can_ddo...</a>
People often underestimate the effect of propaganda. I know very high profile and highly intelligent people, think doctors and lawyers, who think it still is an act of self-defense against neo-nazis.<p>I can understand the argument of NATO encircling Russia, but the invasion of a sovereign democracy can't be justified. Russia was on losing track because of Russia, not Ukraine.
that's cute and all, but I don't think the invading forces get their orders from the defense ministry website<p>how does this change anything? feels more symbolic than anything
See xkcd 932 on this type of reporting:<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/932/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/932/</a>
I didn't think the banner of Anonymous as-used-by leftist hacktivists was still active after the FBI's crackdown a decade ago. Imagine a world where the FBI treated white supremacist terrorists the same way they treat hacktivists.