Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own

The Russian Federation wants to defederate from the Internet lol

…with hookers, and blackjack?

No it's not. This is similar to "Russia trying to have a new moon program". Not happening ever.

The first part may happen, the second part - ahahaha.

I live in Russia.

Removing russia from the internet would solve many problems for everyone else just not Russia

They just want to remove their citizens from the internet, not themselves. It's too useful for disinformation and general fuckery.

Okay, while I'm not a fan of a fragmented internet, I am a fan of losing all the russian trolls that plague many parts of the internet and online gaming. Counterstrike and similar games will lose their saltiest players too!

Russian here. This is a super old claim from our government and is a common source of jokes, it's even called "Cheburnet" (from Cheburashka) colloquially, nobody really treats such claims seriously. Last time Russian government tried to influence internet was when they struggled to ban telegram for several years, and ended up giving up, endorsing it, and moving their official resources to it.

I'm more concerned that the Luddite politicians in the west will think this is a great idea or the more power hungry ones will see it as a way to take some national sovereignty/control back from the internet--that, right now, enjoys an extra-governmental existence.

Imagine needing a digital passport to join EuroNet®©™ or having to pay a 'duty' to surf AussieLan™™©

I hope they don't, all the best torrent sites are Russian.

k bye

Damn they are going to pull a China

Almost like they're literal fascists just like China!

Terrible situation, even if you're in the "well it's Russia so stuff them" camp. Countries moving to their own Internet is a terrible situation, one we've seen before with China and their deep censorship of online media.

Cool, let them, so what?

And reddit will lose more users than it did at the end of June.

Will it be the same quality as other things that Russia makes?

We must somehow patch a connection in, to ensure they have a sufficient quantity of international memes, cats and porn. Access to the internet is a basic human right these days, we surely cannot abandon them.

NSA and CIA are absolutely salivating at the idea of the Russians trying to roll their own TCP/IP stack. However good some of the Russian intel groups might be at offense, they are hot garbage at defense.

But how will they hack the rest of us if they can't get online?

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.

So basically The Great Firewall of China is extending North?

This will be obviously all in the name of authoritarianism. Will the Russian Federation people benefit or will this be a means to control information? Note that my criticisms leveled against Russia could apply to Amurica as well. We Amuricans seem to have wet dreams of Christo-Fascism.

With hookers and blackjack?

"Access over 50 websites with everything you need!"

Time to blow up the Kremlin.

Special internet operation initiated. :)

I think they should team up with China. Seems to have similar mentality.

Internet 2 will be so hot

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Here's hoping that this doesn't become a thing the Russian people deserve so much more and so much better.

It's just sad that their dictator couldn't care any less about the individual or the people as a whole.