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A new, and controversial, law went into effect this week in Russia. 'The National Digital Economy Program" was
signed by President Vladimir Putin in May, it requires Russian[sic] to route traffic through nodes under the control of the Russian Government. ISPs are obliged to install technical devices provided by the authorities to allow traffic inspection.
Of course, the concentration of the traffic through nodes controlled by Moscow and the deployment of technical hardware provided by the government could open the door to a massive surveillance
Russian authorities will be able to censor online content and to spy on persons of interest.
According to the Russian government, the law aims at ensuring that Russian sites will be reachable even if disconnected to the global internet, a scenario that could result from a cyber attack or an outage caused by an incident.
Russia also recently announced annual tests disconnecting from the global internet to assess the impacts of such a move.
Currently none of the twelve top level DNS providers are located in Russia, making the effort interesting to be sure.
Human Rights Watch and activists fear Russia aims to build a system like the Chinese Great Firewall that could be used to apply strict censorship.
The government however immediately laid such fears to rest when it "denied any intent of disconnecting Russian netizens from the Internet."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Arik on Monday November 04 2019, @05:50PM (9 children)
But the war of 1812 was fundamentally defensive. It was declared by a tiny young republic against a world-spanning Empire that had been waging war against it with no declaration for some time. The attempts to invade Canada - the territory of that Empire nearest our border - in the course of such a war may technically warrant the word, but it's quite a different thing from what's going on now.
For real overseas aggression you need to fastforward a bit, perhaps to 1898 or so. Taking Cuba and the Philippines as colonial possessions changed our character in a way we have never recovered from.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:57PM (2 children)
Another conservative slowly catching on to khallow's game. I must say watching the brainwash detox is pretty enjoyable, reminds me of the Matrix "Welcome to the real world."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 05 2019, @01:55AM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 05 2019, @02:24AM
I think it'll be more interesting when you start catching on to my game.
Let's suppose everything is as you suppose it is. Could you have applied said brainwash detox? We have here something beyond your capabilities by implicit acknowledgement, yet somehow not beyond mine.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 04 2019, @09:59PM (2 children)
I used to be very glad Canada defeated the American invasion, but now I think it wouldn't have been such a bad thing. Canada as a country has the potential for greatness, but they have done little with it. What a colossus the two would have made together.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Monday November 04 2019, @11:20PM (1 child)
Alternatively, think if the US and Great Britain had stayed together.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 06 2019, @12:27PM
Then we would have had a bigger version of Australia, that is, mediocre. It is the spirit, the ethos of an independent America that caused its rise to superpower status.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 05 2019, @02:28AM (2 children)
That's still over a century away. Point is this isn't something that happened "now".
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:08AM (1 child)
Look, obviously the historically aware of us realize that this is hardly the first time.
But, the less historically aware viewpoint is not completely indefensible either. The war machine has waxed and waned a few times. It's not at all unreasonable for someone whose memory of world events doesn't really stretch back into the 90s to think this belligerence is 'new' when it's really only 'gone berserk' but is that hair always really worth splitting?
At any rate, we used to go to great pains to avoid being seen as a bully, and now we no longer try. That's a change, and quite a recent one. I'd say we can date it to late 2001. You remember the day that time and space ripped apart and we were transported to bizzaro world right?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @11:12AM
You mean the day "Black Hawk Down" (based on real events in 1993) got released? Nah, I can't say I remember it.