How Putin tried to control the Internet

October 14, 2015 03:53

Vladimir Putin was certain that all things in the world -- including the internet -- existed with a hierarchical, vertical structure.

He was also certain that the internet must have someone controlling it at the top. He viewed the United States with suspicion, thinking the Americans ruled the web and that it was a CIA project.

Putin wanted to end that supremacy.

Just as he attempted to change the rules inside Russia, so too did he attempt to change them for the world.

The goal was to make other countries, especially the United States, accept Russias right to control the internet within its borders, to censor or suppress it completely if the information circulated online in any way threatened Putins hold on power.

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