The red web

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1. prophesiMay 2018
   For a history on Putin's censorship: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Web-Struggle-Dictators-Revolution...
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2. strictneinJan 2017
   If you're looking for a good book covering Russia's attempts at harnessing/controlling/etc the Internet (both domestically and internationally):

      The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
   

   https://www.amazon.com/Red-Web-Struggle-Dictators-Revolution...
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3. prophesiApr 2018
   After finishing The Red Web[0], reports like this absolutely freak me out. This sort of censorship is a totalitarian government's dream, and there's no way to verify who or what is influencing Facebook's timeline algorithms, not to mention that it's simply annoying to not be able to actually control what you see.

   [0] https://www.amazon.com/Red-Web-Struggle-Dictators-Revolution...

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4. r721Aug 2015
   Interesting opinion from Andrei Soldatov:

   “This is an important case because it’s part of the general offensive against https. Roskomnadzor and the FSB [security services] don’t know what to do with it,” said Andrei Soldatov, a journalist and author of Red Web, a book about the Russian internet. Soldatov said SORM, the system Russia uses for internet surveillance, does not work with the more secure https protocol, also used by sites such as Facebook and Gmail.

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   Soldatov speculated that the move against Wikipedia could be part of a test of another strategy: by threatening the site with bans over single pages, the site could be forced off https to ensure that the whole site is not affected when only one page is banned.

   Soldatov said: “There are two options for https: the first is to have access to the data before encryption, which explains the demand to store servers in Russia. The second is to try to force services to give up on https, which is what is happening with Wikipedia.”

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