I suppose this will make a world much easier place for everyone. Both the US and Russia will get a clear enemy, they will keep trying to fight for years, dozen of years, without any achievable success, because any fail you can easily transform in temporary lost in a long run game. If I were the US president or EU, I'd definitely helped them for build this a new internet iron curtains, because it will definitely limit their progress and stuck a new mallow of "replace everything from the west". It's a just basic economy theory of Adam Smith: bigger taxes, bigger obstacles for intonational trade, hurt in the first time your own economy. So I'm definitely support this, lets make russia weak!
Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
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Re: Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
#22I suppose this will make a world much easier place for everyone. Both the US and Russia will get a clear enemy, they will keep trying to fight for years, dozen of years, without any achievable success, because any fail you can easily transform in temporary lost in a long run game. If I were the US president or EU, I'd definitely helped them for build this a new internet iron curtains, because it will definitely limit…
The thing is that after USSR has disappeared Russia is not on par with US anymore, neither economically nor technically. So "will keep trying to fight" will end much earlier than anticipated by many.
Re: Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
#23The title does not match the article: > The law will create an independent infrastructure for the Russian internet, or "Runet," which will essentially allow Russia to pull up its virtual drawbridges in case of attack.
If there's technical capability, there's no doubt they will do it, with or without an "attack" (a fake orchestrated attack can always be used as pretext). It's obvious to everyone this will be another Great Firewall.
Absolutely. It just has not happened yet.
Re: Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but more importantly, in the event of war it would grant them a strategic advantage to be able to use the Internet exclusively within their own territory. The Internet as this wild west style free-for-all was never going to survive nation-state conflicts. All countries will eventually do what Russia is doing now, then link together based on treaties and economic agreements. Any country that opts to remain on an…
Wouldn't that be like saying any nation-state who engages in foreign trade is at a massive disadvantage in conflict? Sure there may be some vulnerabilities but what they get from it likely outweigh it massively. Not to mention implicit allies of interlinked relationships - mess with them and their trading partners won't be happy. Nation-states also fight with their economies - especially in conflicts protracted enoug…
Yes, the Internet is part of foreign trade, that is my point. The same way that we restrict foreign trade in certain instances in order to protect our own interests will be reflected in restrictions on Internet connectivity in general. That starts with being able to control the connectivity, so eventually every industrialized country will have a system like what Russia is building.