How Putin Tried To Control the Internet (vice.com)

derekmead writes: In this excerpt from the recently published The Red Web, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan describe how the Kremlin has been trying to rewrite the rules for the internet to make it "secure" as it is understood by Russia's secret services. "Vladimir Putin was certain that all things in the world—including the internet—existed with a hierarchical, vertical structure. He was also certain that the internet must have someone controlling it at the top. He viewed the United States with suspicion, thinking the Americans ruled the web and that it was a CIA project. Putin wanted to end that supremacy. Just as he attempted to change the rules inside Russia, so too did he attempt to change them for the world. The goal was to make other countries, especially the United States, accept Russia's right to control the internet within its borders, to censor or suppress it completely if the information circulated online in any way threatened Putin's hold on power."

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Re:Why don't we just say it?

[Anonymous Coward]

There are better jobs for you than a warehouse full of astroturfers, comrade.

Re:I'm not normally one to say things like this...

[Archtech]

You are right not to forget MH17, but you are wrong to blame Putin or Russia. There is literally no concrete evidence that even suggests Russia was responsible, and moreover Russia had everything to lose from the atrocity and nothing to gain. Thus the logical hypothesis is a false flag operation designed to discredit Russia. Read http://www.nakedcapitalism.com...