<story><title>Russia considers &apos;unplugging&apos; from internet</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>&amp;gt; The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Eventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China, which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.&lt;p&gt;The internet is fragmenting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_wmd</author><text>If you look at the Internet as a kind of cultural propagation weapon (I find it hard not to adopt this perspective given dominance of US content online, and as someone who with seemingly increasing regularity fails to spell in British as opposed to American English), then this outcome is easily seen as only a matter of time, and depending on how severe you interpret the &amp;#x27;threat&amp;#x27;, kind of long overdue.</text></comment>
<story><title>Russia considers &apos;unplugging&apos; from internet</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>&amp;gt; The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Eventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China, which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.&lt;p&gt;The internet is fragmenting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>In retrospect, the old idea that the internet would be above national borders was hilariously naive. It may be a global network, but there’s nothing that says each country can’t exert a lot of control over their little piece of it.</text></comment>