Controlling the Internet this way is brilliant from an authoritarian standpoint. To have a revolution you need motivation and communication. Can't be motivated to change your government if you're not informed and you can't organize in great enough numbers if you can't communicate. Take note America.
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Let's see if they can pull it off. Russians are extremely well versed in tech, and quite a resilient bunch. And the internet had already arrived at peak maturity when they retired to fence it in, making it way harder than in China where they managed to contain everything before it was too widespread.