Vladimir Putin has not only prepared his army, but also his telecommunications: his digital bunker allows him to minimize service blockages on-line. One of the most active fronts in the war between Russia and Ukraine is on the internet.
During the conflict between Russia and Ukraine there have been several cyber attacks, blocking of content and platforms. On the one hand, the Putin government has blocked access to Facebook or Twitter, while platforms such as TikTok or Netflix restrict their services in Russia.
Since 2019, the Kremlin has your own internet bunker, which allows you to control all the content and not depend on foreign companies. Its name is RuNet and it serves to resist digital offensives from the West.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for Russia to be disconnected from the global network by removing the .ru domain.
Putin’s Internet
Following in the footsteps of the Great Chinese Firewall, the Kremlin began in 2019 the creation of an infrastructure that allows it to control everything that happens in its virtual network.
RuNet it is a private virtual plot from which the content dominates to which its citizens have access and allows it to have digital independence from countries like the United States.
The Russian Government has determined that the creation of RuNet was a security measure against external threats, a computer wall. However, the current conflict has ended up confirming a cruder hidden intention.
On November 1, 2019, the “sovereign internet law” came into force, which empowers Roskomnazor, the organization that controls telecommunications in the country, to shut down Russia’s connections to the world wide web if it considers that there is an emergency.
In Russia, Putin founded his own version of Wikipedia, while the social networks Facebook and Twitter, popular in much of the world, are less popular than the Russian platforms VK and Odnoklassniki used by 78% of the population. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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