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Russia To Block LinkedIn After Court Ruling on User Data (go.com)
Social network for professionals LinkedIn faces being blocked in Russia after a court ruled it broke a law on data storage. From a report on AP:Moscow city court spokeswoman Ulyana Solopova tells The Associated Press that the court rejected an appeal Thursday by LinkedIn against a district court's decision that the company had broken a law that requires personal data on Russian citizens to be stored on servers within Russia. Solopova says LinkedIn can appeal Thursday's ruling. The case was brought by Roskomnadzor, the Russian state telecommunications and media regulator.
I think the regime knows exactly what they are doing. By passing a law that is virtually impossible for most internet entities to comply with, they are creating the legal framework to strictly control information dissemination in Russia. Even better, it's couched in terms that the masses approve of in principle, such as protecting privacy from foreigners who would exploit you.
Sure there are ways to route around the damage, but those are summarily grouped under anti-terror laws.
It's a brilliant scheme, one that is becoming increasingly common across the world. And it's very pernicious and subtle. Governments can now do things that were only dreamed of years ago by dictatorships and the tin-pot kingdoms of history.
Thank goodness trump will make America great again.Oh wait, what's that? He's been in talks with the soviets since before the election? Oops.