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Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-i'm-sure-there-will-be-no-jokes-with-this-one dept.

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."

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  1. almost as bad as... by User+956 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You think that's bad, wait until the US gets full control over the DNS root.

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