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Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Russia's already had this plan in the works for years. They call it "Sovereign internet".

[โ€“] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago

Not really the thing, it's more about censorship than full autonomy.

I mean, if not for sanctions preventing one from using most (usually all) payment methods from Russia, such a disconnection would cause problems.

Now it won't, so yeah, living in Russia I pretty much can believe that even waking up one day in a countrywide version of Elektrostal town local forum instead of the Internet is possible.

In that case I'm packing what stuff I need and leaving for any direction open. If there will be directions open.