Russia 'tried to cut off' World Wide Web
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11934411/Russia-tried-to-cut-off-World-Wide-Web.html
Russia has run large scale experiments to test the
feasibility of cutting the country off the World Wide Web, a
senior industry executive has claimed. The tests, which come
amid mounting concern about a Kremlin campaign to clamp down on
internet freedoms, have been described by experts as
preparations for an information blackout in the event of a
domestic political crisis. Andrei Semerikov, general director
of a Russian service provider called Er Telecom, said Russia's
ministry of communications and Roskomnadzor, the national
internet regulator, ordered communications hubs run by the main
Russian internet providers to block traffic to foreign
communications channels by using a traffic control system called
DPI.
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