Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media

reporter writes "According to a disturbing report just published by Bloomberg, 'As the Kremlin gears up for the election of Putin's successor next March, Soviet-style controls are being extended to online news after a presidential decree last month set up a new agency to supervise both mass media and the Web.' However, unless the Kremlin pursues Chinese-style/Turkish-style blocking of the Internet-Protocol addresses of web sites like 'The Economist', even the Kremlin cannot control the online media. If Putin pulled the plug on an anti-Putin web site inside Russia, the anti-Putin web site could simply be migrated offshore to a server in, say, the United States."

Comments

Bloomberg runs an anti-Putin story

[Master of Transhuman]

And this is news how?

Personally I think we need to run Putin for US President in the next election - with British MP George Galloway as the VP running mate. At least we'd have an INTELLIGENT President and a VP who can talk straight.

Anything is better than what we have now - and all of the candidates the Dems are fielding are no better.