In Russia, they broke the Internet

The struggle of Roskomnadzor with the Telegram messenger of the rebellious Pavel Durov led to an unexpected effect. In its attempt to regulate the Russian segment of the Internet, power can simply break it. For this, the decision of Judge Yulia Smolina on blocking this messenger, which was issued on April 13, 2018, was enough. Already on April 16, without waiting for the appeal to be considered, Roskomnadzor began to systematically burn Telegram in the Russian Internet space.





The extent of the persecution can be judged by the following figures. As soon as the first subnets were blocked, the messenger transferred its servers to new IP addresses, but the regulator continued to block them. By April 19, 18 million IP addresses had already been banned, although only 38 thousand were blocked in all previous years of Roskomnadzor. Roskomnadzor considered it possible to block the IP addresses used by the American corporation Amazon:



Caught under the distribution of more than 650 thousand network addresses. Further more. The rebellious Telegram continued to change IP addresses, receiving them from the Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, in order to bypass the blockages. April 22, Russian Internet users found problems using the American search engine Google and some of its services. Representatives of Roskomnadzor said to numerous complaints from users that Google did not satisfy the requirements of the regulator and, in violation of the decision of the Russian court, continues to allow the Telegram Messenger Limited Liability Partnership service to use its IP addresses:



Such fierceness in the work of Roskomnadzor is associated with the principled position of the state to prevent the appearance of a payment system with the Gram cryptocurrency that is not controlled by the authorized bodies on the basis of the messenger, the intention to create which was voiced by Pavel Durov. The irony is that Telegram continues to work when a number of Russian banks, the US Google and Amazon, have fallen.

Experts note the tendency of the authorities to take control of the entire Internet space. The first blocking sites in Russia began in 2012. In 2015, a law was passed requiring companies to transfer all data about Russian users of the global network to domestic servers. In 2016, she was blocked by the social network LinkedIn. There is an attempt to build a likeness of the "Great Chinese firewall" in Russia.

It is speculated that the next on the list to take control may be American Facebook.