Leonid Volkov on the “soverinization of the Internet”

Most of the followers of "sovereignization" really do not understand how the Internet works, and base their conclusions on horror stories, outright lies and other incorrect premises.

I will repeat very briefly about the “sovereignization of the Internet”; the main thing; There are a lot of questions, and I'm on the road right now and I can't answer them all.

1. The Internet was conceived (and has evolved ever since) as a distributed network, tolerant of the failure of any node or any relatively small number of nodes. This is its fundamental, fundamental property.

2. Any attempts by legislative, technological, or in any other way to limit the number of routes along which data goes; limit the number of network nodes; limit the possibilities for interaction between nodes - they contradict the nature of the Internet, reduce the reliability of its operation, and reduce fault tolerance.

3. The good news is that the Internet has a huge margin of safety. It is designed to work in the event of a nuclear war. What Russian officials and deputies, clichés and Roskomnadzors have been doing in recent years is, in terms of impact and consequences, literally a nuclear bombardment. And nothing, it works. And it will work.

4. Judging by the arguments in support of the “sovereignization of the Internet” that they cite, most of the adherents of “sovereignization” really do not understand how the Internet works, and base their conclusions on horror stories, outright lies and other incorrect premises. And only a minority are just scoundrels who smell the possibility of cutting money. But everything is started, of course, by scoundrels for a drink.

5. In general, everything will be fine, there will be no sovereignization, there is no need to panic and scare each other with stale horror stories.

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