Russia will disconnect from the World Wide Web on March 11, according to a publication by Belarusian media outlet Nexta.
"Russia has begun preparations to disconnect from the Internet worldwide," reads the newspaper's Twitter page.
By March 11 at the latest, all servers and domains must be moved to the #Russia zone. In addition, detailed data on the network infrastructure of the sites is being collected."
#Russia began active preparations for disconnection from the global Internet
No later than March 11, all servers and domains must be transferred to the #Russian zone. In addition, detailed data on the network infrastructure of the sites is being collected. pic.twitter.com/wOCdRqOJej
- NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 6, 2022
It seems that Russia has wanted to disconnect from the world wide web for a long time. Recall that in July last year the country "managed to disconnect from the worldwide Internet during tests in June and July."
In fact, the country began its biggest tests in early 2019 by excluding itself from the "global internet." A proposed "sovereign internet" law was working its way through the Russian government - and then signed into law in May 2019
Russia adopted legislation, known as the sei "Sovereign Internet," in late 2019 that seeks to protect the country from becoming isolated from foreign infrastructure to what it called the "aggressive nature" of the United States' national cybersecurity strategy.
"The legislation caused consternation among free speech activists, who feared that the measure would strengthen government oversight of cyberspace."
But the question is.... is this any different from China, where there is a Great Barrier Protection?
China got on the path early and got all the DNS and companies to do what they needed to do to have their own Internet, which is tightly controlled. Not much can be done in China without the government knowing.