It is pointed out that a police officer who is heavily armed in Russia catches ordinary people and carefully checks smartphones, aiming to appeal for surveillance



In Moscow, the capital of Russia, 'police officers demand that citizens show their smartphones, and even if citizens refuse, they will not release them,' reports local journalists.



Russia invades neighboring Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and Facebook stops monetizing government media against Russia, which is concentrating worldwide, and Twitter and others claim Ukraine's disadvantage IT companies are taking strict measures such as deleting their accounts. As if to counter this, the Russian side restricted access to Twitter and Facebook, and enacted a new law that imposes criminal penalties on reports that were judged to be 'fake news' by the authorities, Russia and Ukraine. The war has evolved into a censorship battle on the Internet.

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Under these circumstances, Ana Vasilyeva of Russia's daily national newspaper Kommersant said on Telegram, a Russian SNS, 'Police in this country demanded that people be stopped and show their mobile phones, and the communication contents and photos were scrolled. I'm letting you do it, otherwise you won't be able to get through. I approached the police officer and asked why he was making such a request, but the police officer just checked my press card. I didn't answer anything. '



A video posted by Vasilyeva shows a police officer checking a man's smartphone.



The police officer wears a protector all over his body.



The police officer swiftly moved his left hand to check the screen of his smartphone.



According to Vasilyeva, such acts are also illegal in Russia. A thread on Hacker News, a social news site that covered the news, said, 'This is an approach to instilling fear. People know this news and panic that they will be the target of a mass police raid next. It will be. ' had.

In a tweet by Kevin Rothrock , a former Moscow Times editor who translated Vasilyeva's report into English and spread it, 'The police officer's helmet is hand-painted with the'Z'mark, which is from Russia. Isn't it a symbol to express support for the invasion of Ukraine? '



In this Russian invasion of Ukraine, many tanks and armored vehicles have been posted on SNS, and the photos and videos show that the Russian army can distinguish between its own army and the Ukrainian army with similar equipment. It has been confirmed that the 'Z' mark is painted on the side of the vehicle.


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