MosNews.com reports on a scary situation in Russia, where the Federal Security Service (FSB) is looking into “developing new rules for internet providers that would prevent the spread of extremist ideas on the Internet, register internet activity.”
Oh really?
It appears that Putin’s administration is becoming overly concerned with the possibility that “the people” could use the Internet as a tool to “form public opinion” on their own. What’s that mean - without propaganda from the state? Of course, this is laid out under the guise of going after directions to make explosives and the like. But in reality, it’s no less than the need to have control over what people are saying, reading, and doing. There are good reasons to come up with rules and regulations over hacking, distribution of illegal material, and other Internet activities - but that’s not what is happening here.
[via TechnoFlak]
