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Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools
An anonymous reader writes Three separate Russian authorities have spoken out in favor of banning online anonymizing tools since February 5th, with particular emphasis on Tor, which — despite its popularity with whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden and with online activists — Russia's Safe Internet League describes as an 'Anonymous network used primarily to commit crimes'. The three authorities involved are the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, powerful Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor and the Safe Internet League, comprising the country's top three network providers, including state telecoms provider Rostelecom. Roskomnadzor's press secretary Vadim Roskomnadzora Ampelonsky describes the obstacles to identifying and blocking Tor and VPN traffic as "difficult, but solvable."
the greeks can start using rubles for all I care. saves them the trouble of printing the money themselves.
oh and if you don't think that he's an asshole... how is he not? his policies are just asshole policies through and through. he's not cleaning up street level corruption in russia and only taking things into his own fold, pisses on the elections, parliament and freedom of expression and rights of the people, annexed a part of another state after his puppet got overthrown and is supplying weapons and troops.
and not least assholistic is running the russian media as he is.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.