Comment by _el3m3n7
5 hours ago
If you are talking about the recent blockades of VPNs, the Russians made it pretty clear that they did not want western information sources inside the country. I am not sure it was ever in the guise of protecting the children
Same with Iran, they clearly said that their control of internet access it prevent Western influence, as a national security issue. China did something similar with their firewall.
I personally think the era of free and unrestricted Internet is coming to an end. All the nations in the West are following suit, including Canada with the introduction of C-34.
The first law about building technical and legal infrastructure to enable website blocking in Russia in 2012 was passed under the name of children protection. Everything else is an addition.
People from duma (the russian parlament) also publicly stated it would never use it for anything but children protection.
Certainly that could be the case. But I was specifically referring to the recent VPN crackdown