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Roskomnadzor is changing tactics and proposing to create a national VPN. What else can we expect?
Roblox has been unblocked in Russia: the platform opens without a VPN. Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the story with Roblox shows that all services can return if they comply with the law. True, there is a nuance with Roblox - general chat is no longer available to Russian users. However, the head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina, reassures that the chat will soon be available again. Political analyst Sergei Shelin believes that the digital “thaw” is a temporary phenomenon before the Duma elections.
Meanwhile, Roskomnadzor is changing tactics. Instead of blocking individual IP VPN services, RKN is now trying to filter encrypted Internet traffic at a deeper level. For this, at least 154 special servers are being purchased for 1.31 billion rubles, writes “ Important Stories ”.
In parallel with this, as The Bell found out, Roskomnadzor proposed creating a state VPN. This was said at a closed meeting with the largest IT companies. RKN apparently decided to take pity on Russian developers who lost access to foreign services.
What other new products in the field of digital “protection” of citizens should we prepare for and how to live with those that already exist, we talk in the program “Facing the Event” with IT expert Mikhail Klimarev .
About Roskomnadzor's plans to create "GosVPN"
“Any blocking on the Russian Internet leads to a worse life for Russians and businesses. And the more they block, the more problems there will be. And the bill, it seems to me, goes to percentages of GDP. And now they have a corresponding problem - because it is really impossible to do development in Russia now. Although there are certainly their own schools of programmers and mathematicians, nevertheless, in numerical terms this is only 1-2% of the world economy. Accordingly, if you don’t use what is being done in the rest of the world, you will simply fall behind.
Therefore, in order to somehow increase the productivity of these people who are developing some systems, including military ones, the Internet is needed. And they will somehow dig out this hole for themselves.”
Roskomnadzor is changing tactics and proposing to create a national VPN. What else can we expect?
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How the idea of creating "GosVPN" is reminiscent of the practice of introducing "white lists" of sites and services
“Last year they started introducing “white lists”. But these lists did not appear because they want people to use only Yandex. These “white lists” appeared as a reaction to the fact that there is no Internet at all. Now it’s exactly the same situation, it’s exactly the same idea: “Let’s do this for our own people, and let everyone else sit on the blocked Internet.”
This idea is not new, it is now used in Iran, they call it “professional Internet”. And I must say that all this actually looks very ugly. In Iran, you need to get a certificate from a mullah, I’m not kidding, come to the IRGC with this certificate, which says that you perform namaz five times, and only after that they can give you access to the free Internet, and then they will still monitor you.”
On the introduction of fines for authorization through foreign services
“This law was not made for some kind of surveillance - surveillance is done in a slightly different place and in a different way. This was done in order to supposedly protect themselves: they scared themselves, they began to solve this problem themselves, as usual, in an army way. Allegedly, if all users connect to some resources through the infrastructure of Google or Apple, and at one fine moment Google and Apple turn off their access, then millions of users will lose the opportunity to connect. Allegedly, they take care of the users in this way. On the other hand On the other hand, we saw in the example of Iran: in the case of such bans, fraud and scam actually grow very strongly.
In the same bill, the first point is an increase in fines for failure to install SORM - this is a system of operational investigative measures that is being developed by the FSB, but telecom operators must buy this equipment at their own expense. Fines have increased exponentially, at least 5 million rubles. For some Rostelecom this is not very dangerous, but for small operators this is quite a large amount. In fact, there is a tendency to literally destroy small telecom operators in favor of monopolists.
About unblocking the Roblox gaming platform in Russia
If there were people in Roskomnadzor and in the Russian government in general who would reason rationally, then there would be no blocking. It is not very convenient to comment on irrational decisions. It is absolutely obvious: both blocking Roblox and unblocking Roblox are some absolutely irrational decisions that were made, as they say, “in one helmet.” Someone simply shrugged it off: we don’t like Roblox, so we’ll go ahead and block it.
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