Did you know that at the end of 2019, Russian leaders passed a sovereign internet law taking the right to cut Runet (the Russian part of the internet) off from the rest of the online world? Yeph.

Right after they introduced a Big Brother surveillance system, with a face scan and all, „to keep the people safe from terrorists”.

Russian video blogger Nastya Ivleyeva asked Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at his end-of-year press conference in early December if the new sovereign internet law will lead to YouTube being banned in the country, the Moscow Times reports.

“I think you understand how I will answer that question,” said Medvedev, chuckling. “The purpose of the law is to keep us from being cut off from the World Wide Web – if anyone is thinking of doing that.“

And we’re like…”???” Right?

By “anyone” he most certainly meant the USA – said Moscow Times.

But get this:

„The sovereign internet law contains a bundle of measures.

Internet service providers (ISPs) will have to install equipment that gives Russia’s internet watchdog Roskomnadzor access to all Russian internet traffic, most likely through a technology called Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) that will allow the authorities to track, watch and filter traffic without users knowing.

Russia will also build a separate Domain Name System (DNS) — an internet phone book that decides which website you reach when you enter a domain into your web browser — that will serve as a parallel structure to the global DNS maintained by ICANN, a U.S. NGO headquartered in Los Angeles.”

What do Russians say to that? This:

If you want to taste the madness, click on this blueprint – it will take you directly to Moscow. Click the X when you’ve had enough.