The Ministry of Digital Development is examining the possibility of introducing a restriction on the use of foreign internet traffic. "They understood nothing and learned nothing" is a catchphrase about the Bourbon dynasty, which returned to power after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. The Bourbons tried to return to the old order, without taking into account the changing society under Napoleon. The Ministry of Digital Development follows the path of the Bourbons, and tries to recreate the Soviet "Iron Curtain" but on the Internet. But in the USSR, the iron curtain on information did not work because of Smizdat and foreign radio stations. You yourself know how it all ends. It is clear that the Ministry of Digital Development is also guided by the Chinese experience of blocking unwanted external information. But it is simply impossible to duplicate China in terms of internet sovereignty. You can cooperate with China all you want with its "Great Firewall of China" with its "Golden Shield" and "Green Dam" subsystems, but it seems unconvincing for a rather prosaic reason - sanctions. The construction of the Great Firewall of China took more than 30 years. For example, Cisco, one of the largest companies in Silicon Valley, has been supplying content filtering equipment to China since the early 1990s. But that's not the point. The issue is the scope of purchases - in 2001 alone, the scope of purchases of telecommunications equipment by China especially for firewall purposes amounted to 20 billion dollars a year. This is 25% of the world market. And China hasn't slowed this pace of acquisitions in 20 years. The Great Firewall of China is made of American blocks and bricks. In addition to equipment, software has been acquired for decades, experts have grown and polished, and the Chinese state's fight against restriction evaders has improved. Will Russia, in light of the closure of supplies and technologies, be able to create at least a pitiful semblance of an iron-clad rural firewall? barely. It is impossible to install a hyperbarrier here and now; This can only be achieved through decades of huge costs and the presence of a large number of skilled staff. Which is impossible with sanctions.

The Ministry of Digital Development is examining the possibility of introducing a restriction on the use of foreign internet traffic. "They understood nothing and learned nothing" is a catchphrase about the Bourbon dynasty, which returned to power after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. The Bourbons tried to return to the old order, without taking into account the changing society under Napoleon. The Ministry of Digital Development follows the path of the Bourbons, and tries to recreate the Soviet "Iron Curtain" but on the Internet. But in the USSR, the iron curtain on information did not work because of Smizdat and foreign radio stations. You yourself know how it all ends. It is clear that the Ministry of Digital Development is also guided by the Chinese experience of blocking unwanted external information. But it is simply impossible to duplicate China in terms of internet sovereignty. You can cooperate with China all you want with its "Great Firewall of China" with its "Golden Shield" and "Green Dam" subsystems, but it seems unconvincing for a rather prosaic reason - sanctions. The construction of the Great Firewall of China took more than 30 years. For example, Cisco, one of the largest companies in Silicon Valley, has been supplying content filtering equipment to China since the early 1990s. But that's not the point. The issue is the scope of purchases - in 2001 alone, the scope of purchases of telecommunications equipment by China especially for firewall purposes amounted to 20 billion dollars a year. This is 25% of the world market. And China hasn't slowed this pace of acquisitions in 20 years. The Great Firewall of China is made of American blocks and bricks. In addition to equipment, software has been acquired for decades, experts have grown and polished, and the Chinese state's fight against restriction evaders has improved. Will Russia, in light of the closure of supplies and technologies, be able to create at least a pitiful semblance of an iron-clad rural firewall? barely. It is impossible to install a hyperbarrier here and now; This can only be achieved through decades of huge costs and the presence of a large number of skilled staff. Which is impossible with sanctions.