Russia to spend $2 billion yearly on disconnection from global Internet

[Van Bur3n]

There is no war in ba sing se

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[Deleted member 1041]

That sucks for the russian folk.

 

[Kthulhu]

I view it as a pre-emptive precaution. putin opened the door to fucking with elections systems via the internet.

I partly view chinas president "for life" also in a similar manner.

Russia defintly participated in fucking with western elections, and I wouldn't be surprised if china did too.

now they are taking actions to prevent the west from fucking with their elections.

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I doubt this would prevent that. This seems more about keeping control of their internet than keeping people out.

 

[kswiston]

I can see this going terribly for them. It's one thing to start off completely restricted like China or North Korea. But Russians have been pretty involved on the internet since the start.

Edit: at least in the WWW era after the USSR fell.

 

[Hektor]

That's a lotta zeroes in that number

 

[funky]

I feel like we are going to see a lot of this going on in the 2020's.

Id be shocked if there arent people in the US looking at China right now taking notes.

 

[makingmusic476]

From what I'm reading from Googling (ex. article), this seems less like an attempt to make a Russian walled garden and more like they're encouraging the transition to local IT companies instead of foreign IT companies for their infrastructure.

While the latter would be necessary to achieve the former, are they actually attempting to do that? I wouldn't be surprised if they were, but I hope that they're not.

Edit: Eesh.

 

[Doober]

I'm sure a lot of governments (including the U.S.) are salivating at the idea.

 

[The Boat]

I don't even know why you decided to write those last five words.

Speak bluntly.

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[Turbo Tu-Tone]

Easily swayed black people on social media apps can all sleep easier now.

/s

 

[Hey Please]

There is no war in ba sing se

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Joo Dee will be the internet tour guide

 

[Vela]

So yet more countries are withdrawing from the the world wide web and making their own little playground to protect citizens from the truth?

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More like the US is surveilling everybody so every country is trying to ensure national security and infrastructure away from the US-controlled Internet

People who study the internet and their infrastructure easily knows why Russia is doing this. Everyone else is as well, so this is nothing new. Brazil for example

 

[Falchion]

This is going to go well.

 

[julia crawford]

That's called gaf

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oof

 

[iamgone9828]

That's called gaf

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Savage

 

[Deleted member 9237]

Not really on topic, but check out the comments on this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9tWd1qiDBs

If you ever doubted them spending money on astroturfing...

 

[Deleted member 41520]

This is good. This means the internet and freedom of information is winning.

This would only be happening if they were scared of it.

 

[Artificial Housewife]

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Where is this from?

 

[Van Bur3n]

Where is this from?

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Avatar: The Last Airbender.