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Russia Adopts Bill That Would Expand Government Control Over the Internet (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Russia's lower chamber of parliament has adopted a bill that would expand government control over the internet, raising fears of widespread censorship. The State Duma on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to support the bill, which still has to be approved by the upper chamber of Russian Parliament and signed into the law by the president.
The bill requires internet providers to install equipment to route Russian internet traffic through servers in the country. That would increase the power of state agencies to control information while users would find it harder to circumvent government restrictions, and the quality of the connection may suffer. Proponents of the bill say it is a defense measure in case the United States or other hostile powers cut off the internet for Russia.
The bill requires internet providers to install equipment to route Russian internet traffic through servers in the country. That would increase the power of state agencies to control information while users would find it harder to circumvent government restrictions, and the quality of the connection may suffer. Proponents of the bill say it is a defense measure in case the United States or other hostile powers cut off the internet for Russia.
Having grown up with the internet and watching it degrade from a place of uncensored anonymous sharing of information where the reputation means nothing and the idea is what holds value, To the e-commerce slums , carefully curated and censored propaganda machine, it has become,. It would be naive not to expect the US to break the internet on purpose, for governmental interests.
Well! Obviously it is necessary to get around the ISPs then!
We have clear evidence that they all act in near-unison, adding more and more totalitarion control and surveillance/spying and warfare, removing more and more rights, like privacy and individal thought.
I think at this point, it is delusional, to believe that they are separate entites, let alone enemies.
Might as well still believe that earth is flat.
So pretty much the rest of the world.
Is there even still a sovereign contra-surveillance anything on this planet?
I don't want to depend on a "benevolent" government to do the right thing.
We've interpreted this degradation as damage; now, how do we route around it? How do we set up an alternative channel for at least text communications
* Point to point directed WiFi with mesh networks?
* Uber for hard disks, so we can drive data around, slowly but surely?
How do we get something going that allows us to thumb our digital noses at these authoritarians?
Not that either approach is 'good' or anything less than sheer evil; but if a government is going to actively snoop on its citizens, is it better to do what the rooskies are doing, or what the NSA did (15 odd years ago I might add.)
case in point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(Or do they?)
I guess they get what they deserve.
It's hard to feel sorry for them.
Definition of Insanity and all that.
You need moar straw, bro?
Uh, huh. Whatever you say. It might help in sucking up to Vlad, though.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Internet or white supremacist Putin? such a tough choice.
Of course putin made it illegal to seize power using the same mechanisms he used. I mean DUH.
ANd whatever big daddy putin does, his slobbering p00sy boi trump is sure to follow. So look for similar measures here, just as soon as trump finishes urinating on his own shoes and getting fscked by big daddy putin with his little pink panties down around his ankles. Daddy putin likes an obedient gurl.
You are building up a fake opponent out of straw and then knocking him over with extreme force.
Nobody is trying to refute Five Eyes or the NSA (as though even makes sense).
except it won't reduce the number and types of attacks originating from Russia, unfortunately.
So Russia joins China, Europe and Australia in censoring the Internet.
Raspberry Pi Zero W's only cost $10 and require very little power. If you paired it with a small solar panel and battery, you could throw these up all over the neighborhood and quickly build that WiFi mesh network you're thinking of.
Problem is, what would you or your neighbors use it for that can't already be done on the Internet itself? Why would anyone bother connecting to your WiFi mesh network instead of connecting to the Internet proper?
Look, I know Beau'n company like to spread propaganda but ffs, this is getting behond stupid. It is in Russia's best interest to do this because.. and wait for it, the so called Five-eye countries. They have especially in the last 10 years gone balistic in their attempt to create a cold war on the Internet as we know it.
The organizations who could have stopped this, both public and private are not being held accountable, at all. What exactly did you expect other countries to do? People are fucking EVIL, greedy bastards. Without fear of being punished they are free to continue being evil. Instead we've given them more weapons, great job. IETF, Nanog, IEEE, Mozilla, GOOGLE, Facebook, MICROSOFT, Linux Foundation, Red Hat /IBM, the list of companies benifiting from this is quite astounding. There are smart people whom are part of these organizations, they are paid very well too.
Downvote all you want mods, you can't keep trying to hide it. Hell you have another story right below this about India.
Try doing socially disruptive (not illegal) activities via Tor and watch what happens to your hops and how often you seem to get 'bad nodes'.
Besides passive surveillance, there is definitely active denial going on across the Tor network. I2P doesn't have that problem, but until the next LeaseSet project rolls out, I2P has a Sybil attack possible with 40-50 targetted nodes, allowing an attacker with active denial capabilities on network infrastructure to rapidly identify a specific hidden service if not client host. There is also evidence that similar capabilities may exist on Tor as well as statistically probably tunnel connections thanks to those 'quality of tunnel' service improvements from a few years back, which cause the majority of Tor traffic to go over the same 20-100 or so first hop, relay and exit nodes, allowing an adversary with lots of bandwidth on geographically diverse (but perhaps technically not) IP addresses to game the circuit creation algorithms and track the majority of traffic metadata directly instead of having to infer it by traffic patterns. Effectively eliminating even the limited Anonymity Tor is touted as providing.
I had a friend many years ago tell me he did everything on clearnet for exactly that reason. They are much less likely to find you in the cloud of public data than they are on privacy networks like Tor. While I disagreed with him and still do about the data itself, he was definitely right that the metadata of 'anonymized traffic' plus the flagging you recieve for utilizing it subject you to more scrutiny. However with Cloudflare and other MITM proxy services all over the internet, I would dare say that connecting to Tor websites has less of a chance of leaking the contents of your transmission with a website to third parties compared to using any service on the clear internet that might be behind a DDoS MITM proxy like cloudflare.
ive done exactly this.
But the software side of the mesh networking is a shitshow.
They should not just be a network of relays. They should BE the servers.
For files, chat (IRC, Signal), mail, websites, forums, etc.
If it offers the ability to host or read informatiom that can't be elsewhere, people will come.
And of course, perverts and criminals. State-sponsored false flag ones and real ones.
Sounds like to me war is about to happen and wants to control information, both militarily and civilian. If it was a non-war issue, he could have had this bill passed a long time ago.
Why have Americans apparently ZERO clue whar communism is?
Hint: The whole point of communism is small communes that share everything to be more efficient, and no central government! It even shares much with libertarianism!
There has never been a communist state on this planet! Only dictatorahips claiming they would "transition" into it, but, surprise surprise, never finished "transitioning".
A 500(!!!) think tank strong lobby organization, with the goals of making the entire planet libertarian fascist, ruled by corporations hindered by zero laws (like human, worker, environmental rights), zero taxes, and zero social safety nets.
They are he US neoocons / Tea Party, they are behind the similar movements in the EU and fascist parties like the AfD (Germany), UKIP (UK) and Swoboda (Ukraine). And they wrote TTIP, CETA, TPP, and the other countless similar international reckless trade agreements with the second/third world countries.
They all must be expelled from this *planet*!
Just cut them off completely. We don't need a global internet. It's just not worth the trouble. US should cut off every other country from their free and open internet. If backward countries without proper free speech laws on their books don't wanna play nice. If greedy countries wanna tax links and pictures.. go for it.. on your intranet.
Get off our network.
IMHO, lots of anti-government anarchists etc always working hard to turn the whole internet to a dark web, that is a crime heaven for all kinds of criminal & exploitative activities!!!
IMHO, all world governments should/must have more active control over the internet, for sure!!!
It is good netiquette to warn readers when a link contains auto-play video.
Do what the USA does, declare the whole internet under its jurisdiction and nearly anything "plus internet" is a crime.
How about the American 672 bill that fights antisemitism in Europe? (wtf - Europe?) Stating the facts - such as âoeThere is a disproportionate number of Jews in the mediaâ is now an offense.
Thanks for writing that up. Food for thought.
"To protect Russians from being cut off from the US.", what a laugh.
And the Berlin Wall was there to prevent West Berlin from fleeing into the East.
Just watch and see. Eventually Russia will decide it's time they "need to protect the sensibilities of their citizens" blah blah blah.
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In Russia or in the US?
We are upset when they do it in Russia but hardly protest when it is done in the "free world". You would think we would be more concerned about what our own governments do... But I guess they have our best interest in mind, unlike Putin who is a monster! /s
Ideas are not just words. How can one know the value of an idea without knowing its context -- things like where the idea came from, whom it came from, what motivated it, etc. The internet is flooded with misinformation: it's becoming quite difficult for the average person determine what's real and what's fake.