One week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world is getting closer to complete isolation of Russia from the world wide web.
Οsupporters of an open, globally connected Internet have been worried for a long time that a large country or region will move away from the Web amid geopolitical conflicts, dispelling hopes for a seamless network capable of uniting a divided world.
A week after Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world is getting closer to this disturbing prophecy than ever before.
Moscow censors banned it on Friday Facebook and restricted other US social networking services. THE Microsoft banned sales to Russians after a similar move Apple,, while a leading American Internet data pipeline, the Cogent Communications, severed ties with its Russian clients to prevent its use of propaganda or cyber-attack networks targeting besieged Ukrainians.
Taken together, these and other events are likely to make it difficult for Russians to watch the horror unfold in Ukraine at a time when Russia's independent media has been shut down by almost everyone. President Vladimir Putin. On an even larger scale, these moves bring her Russia closer to the day when its internet is introverted and its global connections are weakened, if not completely cut off.
«I'm very scared of that"He said Mikhail Klimarev, its executive director Internet Protection Company, which supports digital freedoms in Russia.
As long as the Internet exists, people can discover the truth. If there is no Internet - all people in Russia will only listen to propaganda.
Russia's Internet censorship technology, meanwhile, is becoming increasingly advanced, he said. Andrei Soldierov, a Russian journalist who wrote "The Red Web», A book on the Internet there. People are increasingly relying on VPNs to access blocked sites with access to connection points outside Russia, he said, but there is a risk that even those will be blocked by the government. «For the Russians, it is very dramatic and very fast"He said Soldatov. "Which means people are not just trying to adapt but to counterattack».
Authoritarians in many nations have worked to gain more control over what their citizens see and do on the Internet, while also seeking to isolate them from outside ideas.
Iran has been disconnected from the World Wide Web for a week 2019, while the government was facing internal unrest. China has for years trapped its citizens behind a "Great Firewall»Aggressive surveillance and censorship.
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