The Russian government has announced that it has been victorious in testing a country-wide alternative of RuNet to the global internet. The results will now be presented to President Putin. In the meantime, Experts are troubled with the ongoing trend to dismantle the internet in countries like China and Iran.
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The initiative involves restricting the points at which Russia’s version of the net connects to its international counterpart, giving the government more control over what its citizens can access.
Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey, believes the citizens will no longer have access to what is going on in their own neighbourhood as they would be kept within their own bubble.
According to the Ministry of Communications, the country further plans to create its own Wikipedia and ban the sale of smartphones that do not have Russian software pre-installed.
Local firms along with Russian tech champions Yandex and Mail.Ru would also benefit from this move, which would give them the Thanos power of configuring the internet within their borders as a gigantic intranet.
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Sovereign Internet or Network sovereignty is the effort of a governing entity, such as a state, to create boundaries on a network and then exert a form of control, often in the form of law enforcement over such boundaries. This has implications for state security, Internet governance, and the users of the Internet’s national and international networks. The concept stems from questions of how states can maintain law over an entity such as the Internet, whose infrastructure exists in real space, but its entity itself exists in the intangible cyberspace. More Info
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