Putin brings China's Great Firewall to Russia in cybersecurity pact
This article from the Guardian looks at how Russia are not following China's initiative of putting up a 'firewall' to block and restrict certain material found online which the state deems unnecessary or problematic. Russia are looking at calling it the red web and says its doing it in attempt to stop cyber crime. The state of Russia is driving the offensive against internet freedoms and they want China's help because they do not possess the technology to deal with this alone because of sanctions from the west.
In my opinion. this is not a good thing in terms of peoples privacy and there freedom of what they do online, neither is it a good thing for countries like America and the EU as they are the ones who tried to stop this happening as it went against there own interests. With Russia and China forming this partnership it will worry the west. Russia also decided to start recording and keeping data for 6 months after usage, this is not so similar to what the UK did when they decided to record and store all Internet hits for at least a year for 'security' but does this mean were not so different from Russia?
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