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posted by martyb on Monday March 11 2019, @11:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the Putin's-predator-proceeds-apace dept.

Thousands rallied in Moscow to protest a bill in parliament that would route all internet traffic through servers in Russia.

Protestors fear this bill would

lead to widespread internet censorship for Russian users.

[...and make] virtual private networks (VPNs) ineffective

It is always easier to manage a powergrab of this sort if you can blame RussiaAmerica so the official line is:

the bill is intended to address concerns that Russia could be cut off if the United States applies a new cybersecurity doctrine in an offensive maneuver

conversely

Critics say the bill would create an internet firewall similar to China's.

It also makes a remarkably convenient surveillance choke point, which saves on costs.


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:11AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:11AM (#813043) Journal

    I envy the Russians and Europeans that they've been more on top of Internet freedom, and vocal about it, than Americans have generally been.

    When such "internet freedom" can be used to protect EU businesses from foreign competition. They've been quite casual about it otherwise.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 13 2019, @04:22PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 13 2019, @04:22PM (#813788) Journal
    For example, we have similar DRM laws to the US plus mandatory media levies to alleged content creators for blank media (like CDs and DVDs). Think about that last bit, ever blank CD and DVD has a fee attached because people might use that disk to copy illegally somebody's protected IP. That's definitely worse than most of the stuff that the US does.

    Then there's the Hate Speech laws which is an attack on online freedom of speech.