{"id":952839,"date":"2025-08-06T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952839"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:21:20","slug":"how-russia-reins-in-the-internet-by-blocking-websites-and-isolating-it-from-the-rest-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/06\/how-russia-reins-in-the-internet-by-blocking-websites-and-isolating-it-from-the-rest-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russia reins in the internet by blocking websites and isolating it from the rest of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLINN, Estonia &#8211; YouTube videos that won&#8217;t load. A visit to a popular independent media website that produces only a blank page. Cellphone internet connections that are down for hours or days.<\/p>\n<p>Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a network glitch but a deliberate, multipronged and long-term effort by authorities to bring the internet under the Kremlin&#8217;s full control. Authorities adopted restrictive laws and banned websites and platforms that won&#8217;t comply. Technology has been perfected to monitor and manipulate online traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALLINN, Estonia &#8211; YouTube videos that won&#8217;t load. A visit to a popular independent media website that produces only a blank page. Cellphone internet connections that are down for hours or days. Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous. It&#8217;s not a network glitch but a deliberate, multipronged and long-term effort by authorities to bring the internet under the Kremlin&#8217;s full control. Authorities adopted restrictive laws and banned websites and platforms that won&#8217;t comply. Technology has been perfected to monitor and manipulate online traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}