{"id":10855,"date":"2014-09-22T06:57:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10855"},"modified":"2014-09-22T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:57:56","slug":"bloomberg-russia-plans-break-from-global-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/bloomberg-russia-plans-break-from-global-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: Russia Plans Break From Global Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""Russian<\/a><\/p>\n

(Source: Bloomberg<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Russia plans next week to discuss contingency measures to cut the country off from the global Internet in what the Kremlin called a necessary step to shield the nation from the U.S.-controlled worldwide Web.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s state security council will examine ways to ensure domestic users can be redirected to servers inside the country rather than relying on the U.S.-managed Internet domain-names system, the Moscow-based Coordination Center for .RU domain said by e-mail today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to defend ourselves from the U.S. and Europe,\u201d President Vladimir Putin\u2019s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said by phone today. \u201cThis is not about isolating ourselves, it\u2019s about getting ready for possible cut-offs as countries that regulate the Web may act unpredictably.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]Russia last month banned anonymous access to the Internet in public spaces and expanded the regulation of media to the blogosphere, requiring those with at least 3,000 daily readers to register their real names and contact information. In February the authorities had passed a law allowing them to close webpages without a court decision if material is deemed \u201cextremist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who used to criticize Putin and reveal corruption among his inner circle, was the first victim of that law when his blog on LiveJournal.com was shut in March. Recent legislation requires Internet companies to store Russian users\u2019 information on servers in the country, similar to Chinese regulations.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full article on Bloomberg…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I expect this will only lower Russia on the Press Freedoms Index<\/a>, where they are currently number 148 out of a possible 180.<\/p>\n

This post is being tagged: \u00a0Why Shortwave Radio?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Bloomberg) Russia plans next week to discuss contingency measures to cut the country off from the global Internet in what the Kremlin called a necessary step to shield the nation from the U.S.-controlled worldwide Web. Russia\u2019s state security council will examine ways to ensure domestic users can be redirected to servers inside the country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[3256,1056,2616,2093,1016,84],"class_list":["post-10855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bloomberg","tag-internet-censorship","tag-press-freedom","tag-russia","tag-shortwave-vs-internet-radio","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2P5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8872,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/why-shortwave-russia-blocks-web-pages-linked-to-ukraine-protests\/","url_meta":{"origin":10855,"position":0},"title":"Why shortwave? 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