Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own
Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own
Russia and other nations are working on “sovereign Internet” systems that threaten digital rights—and the stability of the global Internet
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I do have mixed feelings about this. Let's say pool it off and Russia net is now thing. That makes it harder for Russian conmen to rum various scams and hacks, ex ransomware, but it makes it a lot harder for the people there to break out of the state own propaganda.
The Russian scammers are using a ton of proxies and VPNs. Unfortunately, this change will not affect them unless the Russian government completely removes access to the global Internet, and even then, the corruption is so deep that many officials will be selling access to the global Internet to their friends or people with money.
Russian scammers and social media manipulators are here to stay, likely because they're largely state run initiatives and they'll still have access to the global Internet.
What this does is keep the normal Russians insulated from the rest of the world and unable to coordinate outside of their own country, where everything they do is even more tightly controlled by the government.
They might just be interested in blocking average Joes out of information. The language barrier is already pretty good at doing that, to the point that reading different language versions of Russian Today seemed to provide two different versions of the site, but if Russians can join social networks not controlled by the state to criticize the government in private groups it might be a problem for Putin.
That statement works for every other freedom you lose, it also serves to detect malicious intent from another person. There's always a middle ground, where nothing's perfect, but it's balanced. There's always a compromise. There's no perfect scenario. If you want a perfect society, you have to take away all freedom. If you give away all freedoms, there's anarchy.
agree, that's why my feels are mixed