“As these platforms and services disappear from Russia, it divides the world along a technological fault line,” geopolitical futurist Abishur Prakash notes
After the Western tech firms rolled back their services and products in Russia in response to Moscow’s military action against Ukraine and the Kremlin intensified its own digital censorship, many experts are wondering if the conflict will fundamentally alter the internet as we know it.
“Now, as these platforms and services disappear from Russia, it divides the world along a technological fault line,” geopolitical futurist Abishur Prakash toldSome are afraid that such moves will only aid Putin in completely isolating Russians from the free flow of information, restricting them from tracking the incursion as it unfolds in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, calls to unplug Russia from the global internet coming from Ukrainian officials have also been met with resistance from several groups. The idea of unplugging Russia from the internet highlights what is referred to as the ‘Splinternet’ – where balkanised versions of the internet exist in different countries.
In 2019, Moscow said it had successfully tested the system, which involved restricting the points at which Russian Internet Service Providers connected to its global counterpart. Now in the context of the Ukraine attack, it appears to be re-testing those systems, although the government hasObservers like Andrew Sullivan, president of the nonprofit Internet Society, are skeptical of Russia being able to effectively switch to RuNet and sever itself from the global internet.
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