Roskomnadzor Swears It Didn't Break PyPI, It's Just a 'Coincidence'
Roskomnadzor claims everything is perfectly fine with PyPI access in Russia. Apparently, if your internet connection is broken, it's definitely not because of their massive, omnipotent censorship machine—it’s just a cosmic accident.
When Russian developers started screaming that PyPI—the vital library backbone for Python—had vanished from their screens, the local regulator rushed to clarify that they aren't actually flipping the kill switch. The service is simply refusing to load from Russian IP addresses, which is a classic symptom of the Great Firewall’s accidental collateral damage rather than a deliberate targeted strike.
The issue stems from the fact that PyPI relies on Fastly to distribute its heavy content. Since Fastly’s infrastructure uses IP ranges that are frequently caught in the crossfire of automated blocking scripts, the site is effectively unreachable for anyone stuck behind the local internet filter. It is a stunning display of digital incompetence where the regulator insists that because they didn't manually blacklist the specific domain, the resulting outage is merely a technical misunderstanding.
This bureaucratic performance art suggests that the state doesn't need to ban specific developer tools when it can simply make the global internet infrastructure incompatible with its own borders. Whether this is a feature or a bug, the reality remains that the country’s digital landscape is slowly turning into a walled garden where the walls are built by accident.
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