Wednesday, February 21, 2018

In 2014 Putin told an audience in St.Petersburg that the Internet itself was a "CIA Project"

In April 2014, Putin told an audience in St Petersburg that the internet was a "CIA project". His claim reflected a deeply-held belief among Russia's elite that the internet was a threat to their grip on power – a tool of subversion created to spread western values.
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How Vladimir Putin mastered the art of 'online Judo' – and the west ...

www.wired.co.uk/article/gordon-corera-vladimir-putin
May 10, 2017 - Russia is using the internet's idealistic freedom as a hybrid-warfare weapon against the west. ... There is no evidence that Snowden wanted to go to Moscow or was ever a Russian agent, but Putin would turn America's strength against it. Snowden exposed the vast power of the NSA and GCHQ to tap global ...
 
 
If you understand where Putin is coming from here you see from his point of view he is just "Destroying a CIA project" by harming the usefulness to Americans of the entire Internet.
 
So, likely one of his goals would also be the destruction of the Internet itself.
 
So far, he is succeeding slowly at destroying his "CIA Project" the Internet.
 
The problem with this is literally all the biggest businesses in the U.S. rely somewhat or completely upon the Internet for their businesses to function at this point.

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