How Putin Controls the Internet and Popular Opinion in Russia

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https://theintercept.com/2015/09/08/how-putin-controls-the-russian-internet/
The key paragraph in Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan’s new book, The
Red Web, comes surprisingly late, after the authors have described the
long and ambitious construction of a wide-ranging, all-penetrating
Internet surveillance and censorship system in Russia.
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Just as the Soviet system discovered that it did not need to exert
total pressure in order to control its population, so the Kremlin has
now demonstrated that it does not need to block every byte in order to
exert utter dominance over information.