Some follow-up videos I recommend: Russia's cyber attacks on Ukraine: nebula.app/videos/techaltar-putins-cyberattacks-are-weak-for-now Russia's Chechen wars: nebula.app/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-the-chechen-wars Russia's invasion of Georgia: nebula.app/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-the-russian-invasion-of-georgia The history of Ukraine's independence: nebula.app/videos/the-great-war-the-actual-history-of-ukrainian-independence-i-the-great-war-1922 The Nebula / CuriosityStream bundle is no longer active. Instead, you can sign up for Nebula directly with my discount now for about $2.5 a month with a yearly plan, which includes Nebula Originals AND the whole Nebula Classes platform, too, including my own class. Sign up here: go.nebula.tv/techaltar
2 errors in the video: - No, Russian govt has no plans of cutting Russia off the Internet, only capability. That Sovereign Internet Act was mostly for DPI (for targeted blocking of sites) and also readiness in case it's cut off the Internet by adversaries. - Telegram didn't find a way around DPI, it found ways around IP blocking. DPI was implemented later as part of aforementioned law.
i really dont think people understand how bad this actually is. once they're are two separated flows of data/systems cyber warfare is really going to pick up. because the risk of crippling one another without having consequence and tracking is going to implode. this is just so bad!
Kudos for the simple explanations of DNS and Internet Routing. Just the right balance of technical terms (e.g. AS in BGP context) while delivering the required information to understand the issue!
From my relatively uneducated point of view, one thing about this leapt out at me: If some or all of those cloud services were to deny Russia access, what are the odds of Russia turning to China for those cloud services listed in this video? If China has been managing their own web services since the inception of the Internet, surely that would be a viable option, no? I recognize that it would still probably bring the Russian internet to a temporary grinding halt even if such a switchover were to happen, but it wouldn't be as catastrophic, right? Is that a possibility or would it be unlikely to happen, differences between government doctrine or incompatibility with systems or w/e getting in the way?
Microsoft, Amazon, Apple all have separate server operating in China. Like Azure, AWS and iCloud all available in China (these services can help get across firewall actually, for example, setup a cloud server on AWS or Azure for routing data, but will got banned immediately, iCloud Drive is the only cloud storage services that can be access with fast speed in China and outside, other Chinese providers are slow outside and their client softwares are the worst, Dropbox Google Drive, Box, all other famous providers are banned, only OneDrive and iCloud are legal, but OneDrive only available in China for enterprise account) but maintain separate from internet outside of China. Google is the only outsider but Chinese government still demand Google to provide limited services such as android source code access and chrome updates. And Google agreed. Because China has leverage that other companies can’t say nope, Microsoft even made a special edition only exclusive to Chinese government that without any telemetry at all, Chinese government even gained permission to check source code of windows. China is Apple’s second largest market in the world, China produces most products sell on Amazon and most Android phone brands are Chinese, so these companies have no choice but obey China. However these leverages don’t exist in Russia.
China now even has leverage to let Elon Mush shut up. Gigafactory in Shanghai has been suspended for over a month, but Elon Musk just pretend nothing happened, in contrast, he complained a lot when gigafactory just shutdown for couple of days in the states.
@@abbofun9022 Not necessarily. Over the past few decades, the US has proven multiple times that they are not trustable themselves, especially from Russian eyes. Hence, they might regard China as being the smaller problem.
As someone totally outside the tech world, I really appreciate your simplified explanations. Based on the positive comments from others who seem to know their ways around these things, It sounds like you satisfied most of the experts too -- that's quite a feat!
I have a cousin in Russia. A few weeks ago i received a short email from him asking "why aren't you responding to my messages". I sent him several responses, but I haven't heard back from him. Its clear that all our email messages are being blocked. Apparently only that one slipped through.
It's always useful to remember that the arms race between ponderous authoritarian governments and non-centralized, diversely motivated private actors is usually won by the smaller, faster actors. No amount of hireling power thrown around can close every hole in the fence; just like no amount of black cloth can hide the sunrise.
@@hdog679 but the 5% will lead 20% more to the holes, and they'll bring 20-40% more. "Lure of the Forbidden", and all that. None of this firewalling will solve the UR Party regime's problems anyway; because those are all inside the wall.
Economically, Russia is market economy, just as China, USA, France. Politically, it is more centralised than USA or France (but less centralised than China). Looks like you mix this concepts in your message.
I don't get what's supposed to be so difficult about network private DNS. Most countries have it, it's merely a filtered version of upstream DNS, some entries added, some removed, and local ISPs are obligated to relay it via their own DNS cache servers to the end customer. I have a private DNS at home as well.
You really think a DNS on a Pi for your home is equal to a massive network of DNS servers that need all kinds of fancy (BGP, IGMP, etc) and performance?
@@jamegumb7298 A DNS Query is a DNS Query regardless of whether its going to a Pi or a server cluster. The only difference is scale and capacity. That said, within Russia, they don't even need to roll out new servers at all. Russia can simply order their ISPs to forward all requests for their TLDs to the existing servers that manage those TLDs, bypassing the root servers entirely. Now, if they want to hijack Non-Russian domains, they will need more infrastructure but remember they are only serving the population of Russia and maybe Belarus which together is still less than half the US Population. I seriously doubt they would have any issue whatsoever handling the traffic, especially with caching being done by intermediate systems.
@agapp11able Yes Putin knew that Russia risked such sanctions if he proclaimed he would invade and annex Ukraine. Exciting whether Putin is going to drink champagne for his high risk actions, or North Korea-like conditions will be the gain.
The USSR fell once they started getting information outside of their nation, blocking user getting alternate information will just result in hardening the regime
@@darkithnamgedrf9495 он имеет ввиду то, что сша давно ведет военные действия в сети. Просто в сша это не так заметно, потому что контрполь над сетью давно в руках правительства. Исключение из DNS российских доменов не предотвратит их функционирование в рф. Но западные пользователи могут испытывать трудности в доступе к ним. В русском языке есть такая пословица "перекладывать с больной головы на здоровую". Это значит оправдывать себя тем, что обвинять других в том что сам делаешь.
The main reason for the fall of the ussr was the failure of their economic policies Sure, the availability of outside info helped somewhat, but don't overestimate it, it's not that important
Exactly. The Internet is so pervasive that although there might be an initial desire to block the Internet, any sane person would suddenly also be confronted with the reality that a lot of benefits also rely on the Internet... So in the end you see the attempted solution to only partially block the Internet which then becomes a very complex thing. China is an example of the "Great Wall of the Internet" attempting to isolate itself but can't completely from the rest of the world.
This is similar to PayPal blocking Russia. It mainly hurts the individuals, like digital Artists who lost their main way of accepting payment. (Also the PayPal case is especially ironic, since Ukranians had to make Russian accounts before then as PayPal didn't acknowledge Ukrane as its own country)
@@Solid_Snake99 So if Nato were planning to arm Cuba and Mexico with nukes right on Americas doorstep, and the US invaded both Cuba and Mexico. Who then will be in the right?
If you are from russia, how do you like using VPN ( American i guess) to actually go on western websites which were blocked by Russians because they “spread false informations “ 😂😂😂😂 and again i know that even on wikipedia you can find who attacked Poland and how actually started WW2 , not the version what they teach in russia so they blocked wikipedia too there 😂😂😂😂😂
i hate everything about this. the best thing about the internet is that it's global and that you can basically talk with anyone real time. and realize that we are all the same, but our governments might have different agendas which they force upon us.
If Russia is disconnected, certainly they would have their own DNS. This causes zero problems for worldwide DNS use because Russia does not use it. In the same way China is disconnected.
Exactly. I was very OK with the US at the helm up to this point, but now I feel like I was betrayed , stabbed in the heart. I thought freedom meant freedom for everyone. Internet for everyone, no matter the nation, war or dictator... It's a very sad day in history
@laci272 Probably you lived in delusion, and you have woke up and realized that freedom is only a slogan. Technology always could be a political tool. For example the Internet and the Tor was made the USA gov, GPS was used in the military conflict.
@@laci272 you clown the internet is created on the US for military reasons so of course they control majority of the internet. If you want to be independent then copy what China did.
But other countries and their citizens aren’t innovate enough to be the leader in the industry. Don’t hate cause the US government actually allows its citizens to be creative and innovate. Dictatorship and authoritarianism limits creativity. In order for a country to be a super power, the people must be creative. From these creations, the government formulated regulations and what not. Please, I’m tired of people saying the US has to much control when they are the innovators. Should the US give up its intellectual property to say Russia or China? Please get a grip in the comments and try to think a lil deeper than the surface 🙄
It's more worrying that government's, particularly authoritarian, try to tightly censor the internet. They almost always botch it, which is one reason Americans continue to dominate.
USA Alone cannot do anything. If USA is becoming decentralized, it will face just as many problems. This is what happens when many other countries abandon you or you abandon them.
They have problems with youtube channel icons not shown and instagram blocked. But instagram had never been popular there 'cause their own social media like vk and telegram are ways more suitable to them
While this video is based on facts, the analysis is not entirely correct. Even tho Russia experimented with the strategy or blocking certain websites it proved to be pointless. Currently, Russia's strategy is the openness while western strategy is to block Russia's voice and substage Russia's infrastructure. So, Russia's alternative name registry was not invented to compete with other name registries but to be a back up in case an emergency. Because a significant portion of Russia’s infrastructure is heavily reliant on the Internet Western sabotage can be devastating. So, currently, if West decide to cut Russia from the global internet or throttle Russia's access, or cease to exist, you know lol, the internet in Russia world be unaffected. But again, full block is not even possible as the west is less than a quarter of the world, so even if the West tries to cut Russia's internet there are other countries not mentioned in this video that Russia's traffic can be routed through, like china, India, many Arab countries, Africa, satellites etc, but without Russia's own name registry ICANN may just become ICANNOT
What are you talking about? 🇷🇺 strategy is openness and the west is blocking 🇷🇺 voice? WOW just fucking WOW! In what alternative reality you’re living in?
@@alexpan7819 Yeah, no problem. Gotta be prepared for anything when a President of one of the top two nuclear powers accuses and threatens the other of things he didn’t do and then handshakes an invisible person in front of the whole world.
Yea, that's true. Today west doing more to block access, ТСПУ (just DPI) - ressets your connection to website. West methods - content replacement (almost impossible to detect without human), site is loading forever.
I have to remind my fellow Americans constantly that many under 50 years old in Russia who grew up on an open internet do not agree with this war. I've been playing online videogames and talking about nerd topics with them for my entire life. I met my current day best fried through a school friend who was 100 percent Russian. He moved back to Russia in middle school but I still have my best friend I talk to daily thanks to him. I am unsure of what ages are being drafted in Russia but he would be 28 at this time and might be fighting or may have died in Ukraine already for all i know.
Good to know. And the poor guys who are forced to go to Ukraine! I have often thought that the so-called leaders that want these wars should fight it out themselves. School yard rules. We'd be back to the old days with the biggest, bad-est men, or women, running the countries. Guess it really wouldn't work these days!
As a Russian, I can assure you that the number of people willing to topple this crazy regime, once and for all and purge Russia and the whole world of this evil is way waaay bigger than you can imagine, even bigger is the number of those against this war. But yeah, sadly enough, those over 50 generally tend to be in favour of putin and all of them, all of them folks watch TV, none trusts "the internet" and by the way, they openly admit it when and if asked. Yeah it sounds ridiculous but that's the reality we live in. As a Russian I'm in complete awe at what's going on, definitely this evil we're dealing with today, should have been stopped earlier... I'm a positive thinker and I'm of the opinion that we will overcome, but in order to do that right now we've got to be looking for friends, not enemies, if you know what I mean. And you're absolutely right pointing out that there are many Russians who are against the regime and what it's doing as much as other sane people, regardless of where they come from originally.
@@someoneyouknow5040 Stay safe and I wish the best of luck to you. Honestly Americans over 50 would be acting in a similar way to Russians if put in a similar situation. The old guard needs to give up power and allow the younger generation to decide what kind of country they want to live in. We are the ones navigating the job market and trying to build a foundation while things are becoming more and more unattainable for many. I really hope the Russian people are successful at overthrowing Putin.
If Russia manages to isolate itself, ala North Korea, the government propaganda will stick much more easily. This is bad for Russians and bad for the global community. We need information coming in and out of countries.
The sanctions on Russia should remain indefinately.Any warmongering States seriously threatning nuclear weapon use should be Economically Neutralised for InterNational Security reasons.They are Isis with real Nukes.
I am taking a university course on how the Internet Works right now and at the beginning of the semester the professor guaranteed that at least one huge internet accident will happen So interesting to see how huge the repercussions of some of these things are
A few years ago, AWS went down, and a quarter of the sites on the Web stopped working for half a day. One developer pushing bad code could have huge consequences for the Internet as a whole.
Does your brain work? Ears and eyes ok? He literally covered it in the video……. Ukraine asked and they were denied. What the hell more do you want? Anybody can “request” something it doesn’t mean it has to be considered or accepted.
@@CalifornianSupremacy Kevin, I wrote "I don't understand how anyone can request something like that at all." It's good that the request was denied. But that is not the point I was making. Note: That my reply is does not contain rhetorical toxic questions.
DNS they can basically change at their own whim. Although that explains why I haven't noticed much of a change, as I build my own DNS from root servers and cache that locally, meaning that they have to attack ICANN directly to affect me.
"Slighty slimplified version of DNS" is more like: When you look up a website, a server looks through a list of addresses until it finds what you searched, and gives your browser the IP address to connect to, to show you the website. You didn't explain DNS, you explained a hierarchy.
isnt "global internet" a pleonasm? (like "kick the ball with your foot" or "I myself") inter already means global or maybe even universal, doesnt it? I always wonder what would galaxy civilization do with latency on galaxy scale... but I always supposed it would still be just the internet and not "galaxnet" or "galactic internet". Even if you cut yourself or a country off "internet", it is still global, I guess. Like if I do not watch national TV it does not convert it from "national TV" to "a TV", does it? Thoughts, useless thoughts, I am gonna do something productive now.
Russia is loosing its developers. They are all getting up and moving to countries with open internet policies. Russia might succeed in keeping domains going but a nations software infrastructure operational and competitive... You need brains for that, free thinking open minded brains.
3 months and 6 months bootcamps do the job, the rest of real pro guys can be brought from other countries, where people don't care about this war. Plus, really, many Russian devs moved out Russia, but beacuae of launguage barrier, they don't find jobs, and still work for Russian companies remotely using VPN
I’m worried this’ll inspire other authoritarians to take similar steps furthering their hold on their citizens and making dissent even harder in a time where overthrowing a totalitarian regime is harder than ever. Despite the atrocities Russia as a state has committed against Ukraine’s citizens and the citizens of other countries, I still feel bad for their peoples since the vast majority of the Russian citizenry never wanted this fucked up war. Edit: I should also add that I hope through all of this ICANN among those other big infrastructure companies you mentioned like Cogent simply remain neutral outside of the most dire of circumstances, doing otherwise could set a terrible precedent regardless of how you feel about this atrocity of a war.
Not sure about "vast majority". Major part of the people's i know actually support occupation of Ukraine. Just like they did support occupation of Crimea in 2014 😔
@@julm7744 *Edit: The poll is very suspect on further thought due to it being taken in an authoritarian state. I’ll still keep the rest of the comment despite the fact the survey is almost certainly false.* If that’s true then that’s disappointing to say the least. I guess it really goes to show the power of propaganda. That’s why the internet however is important, it makes it possible (though not necessarily always easy) to get news and information about what’s going on with your government and the rest of the world that isn’t just propaganda from your own government. Out of curiosity though do you have and/or remember the exact statistics from said poll though?
Not big of a problem for Russia, russia being the largest country and its ally China which is large as well but mostly the most populated country in the world.
Russia isn't being cut off from the internet, yes the government was talking about it for 3 or 4 years but other than blocking Facebook and Twitter (which is a good thing imo) nothing really happened, we aren't getting cut off any time soon
a lot of Russian creatives relying on international income are VPN reliant and claiming foreign origins. Finland, Bulgaria, etc. they still can post with Instagram but no messaging available. this may yet change. most have gone to Telegram as well.
But if it stops this BS agressiony it is ok. Imo modern "conflict" is network based anyways. Weapons should be superfluous if you can disable infrastructure.. In theory
It wasn't cut off They blocked unpopular instagram and grew their own social media like vk and telegram I started noticing that torrent forums started having more russian users 'cause now they have legal excuse for hacked software
Being not reliant on western Internet / tech should be what every countries do. Because they can also just flip the switch and make any country they want in danger.
@@KhizarKhan2001 i say every countries should let people decide what is best for them and the governement should stay out of their life because history proved that they are incompetent at best.
When I heard of this,half a decade ago was it,my balls shrunk to a painfull shadow of they usual self.The implications seem sinister. While I personally feel the internet is destroying accountability and causing moral disassociation,a nation who tries to disconnect must have some reason,perhaps the destruction of the existing one…
Russia is NOT getting cut off the global Internet. It has decided a few years back it wanted its country Internet to have to option to connect, or not connect to selected parts of the global Internet. In particular, ability to run independent of any infrastructure of USA and the west in general. Put in firewall to control traffic and content. This is not so different from any country who has have power to disconnect by physical cut, or by making traffic cannot route to it. Twitter was blocked routinely this way. In short, Russia is simply doing what China have done, with slight technical and policy differences to fit itself. It can still connect to anywhere it wants which has not blocked it. The big difference is Russia Internet and its working does not depend on anything that come out of USA or its allies. This is not true for many countries. ICANN is an UN organization not controlled by any country. No one country can block any other country using ICANN top level domain, or modify the DNS software which the UN agency control. The Domain name infrastructure consist of many servers in many countries. They belong to the countries, each alone can run the entire Internet. All the distributed servers serve only as redundancy. Russia did not build own DNS. It took existing DNS technical systems and made it sovereign, independent. This is what China did too. China entire Internet systems today run using own equipment. There is not a single American or European router, switch or server in sight. Russia have benefit much by also using China equipment in addition to own. Both does not need to import anything from the west. Indeed they are more advanced. The west may claim it has 'blocked' Russia from global Internet. This is an impossibility. Russia continue to connect to all countries that specifically did not block it. Just as USA cannot connect to Russia if Russia blocked it. You know, N. Korea blocked everything American, and China blocked all American social platforms. Facebook is blocked by a dozen countries. Today there are only two countries whose Internet is sovereign - China and Russia. Who's is not sovereign? Why its USA. It is in the sorry position what it cannot block any country and any traffic. It has no national firewall. It does not even control the .com, .net, .org domains which it originated. And today there are dozens of domain names created so that even these are no longer essential. What both Russia and China did, as superpowers, is to protect its own Internet and its global access from being dependent, or blocked by anybody under American command. Both are doing just fantastic thank you very much. Who is the big loser? USA. It tried to cut Russia off, failed miserably. It pulled its big business out of Russia, which is exactly what Putin wanted ! Russia is now free from western shackle. While USA business lost billions in income, stock price crashes, and lost the huge Russian market permanently. Putin is smiling. Do you see Biden smiling?
@@biggusduckus6489 Russia has full access to China telecom, networking, Internet software, computing and cloud technologies, the best in the world. It is up to Russia what they chose because there are no sanctions. It's a matter of gearing up tech skills, payment. But now Russia is racking it in by the billions from gas price increase to Europe, payable in Rubles. Look to Russia to implement the second best comm infrastructure in the world after China. Europe in contrast is third world because it has low tech in telecom, no tech everything else. It has to buy from US, while China won't sell. Also, as the Ukraine war show, NATO in Europe is also third world. It has bits of stuff but in no condition to use of fight anything. It has no attack weapons because US keep all these to itself, deny Europe attack capability. For such a bunch of weaklings, their arrogance is off the chart.
Russia cutting off from the Internet as a whole is a really, really bad thing, whether we do it to them or they just cut ties themselves. I can totally understand their perspective on DNS, however. Obviously they can't depend on a system when that system can choose to deny them service.
I have online friends in Russia I can't even talk to right now. I see innocent citizens on both sides who didn't ask for any of this. And I hope one day everything can be restored.
They likely don't want a WW3 but having an "enemy" to use as an excuse for just about everything fits them very well. Was the commies/russians for a good while until the early 90s. Then it became the Arabs and now we're back to russians.
Yes, it's typical situation when rich and powerful becomes even more rich and powerful and poor, disabled, minimum wage workers suffer. Why you lost access to them though?
one country invaded another and is launching missiles at apartment complex's. There are no 2 evils this time. I could write a thesis on the war crimes of Russia at this point. China does not have a single leg to stand on. China imports 80 percent of its food and if cut off within a year 500 million of its citizens would starve.
I want to see Russia punished, but if we eventually cut off ordinary Russians off (even those using VPN's etc) we cut ordinary Russians off from seeking truth. Or at the very least views, opinions, and facts other than what the Russian government present to Ordinary Russian people. It's a bad idea. Cutting off domains is fine, but if this is the first step to blocking all Russian internet communication with the WWW then its a very bad idea.
What does it matter they're trying to do it anyways their authoritarian government they don't want the truth and 80% of the people just are spoon fed Russian propaganda on a daily basis
I'm no expert, but surely this isn't good ? the internet is the only way most ordinary Russians can see the truth on what is happening. Interesting to see Russia building it's own system though, although these measures obviously target business and government how do ordinary folks in Russia now get outside info ? Your explanation is great and as I said I'm no expert but if I were placed in Russia now how would I access foreign news, probably best not to say or they will block it lol, anyone tell me?
What on Earth is that map in the thumbnail? Russia seems to have been shunted back in it, with its Baltic and Black Sea coastlines squished into central asia instead.
@@isokabooks3758 I see. So they are leaving Russia so they can work for Russia. And get paid in rubles because everyone likes zombie currencies. And who in Russia would worry about sensitive infrastructure code coming in from anti-Russian countries.
Well how do you come to the conclusion that isolating Russia is NOT going to help it wean its reliance from western services and also how do you know that they do not have the professional expertise to develop replacement services?
As coincidence would have it, just 2 days ago (4/27/22), someone posted a link to a video on the war in Ukraine that ended with the ".ru" suffix. I clicked it, and was able to access the video. Had the video included translation, I might have watched more than a few seconds here and there skipping through it. But, this demonstrated that the ".ru" country code still remains accessible. It seems to me that the bigger value of cutting off Russia from the internet is to diminish their hacking abilities, more so than precluding their media presentation to the west
I still can't believe Russia thought they would take Kyiv in 3 days and the rest of the world would be like yeah that is all fine let's get back to business as usual.
And if Russia did take Ukraine in few days, West would probably accept it and blowback would be much smaller. It was a gamble, but Russia badly miscalculated
Governments are owned by large multinational companies. See how many are listed on the various stock exchanges. The large companies tell govs what to do.
Cutting of Russia from the Internet would just strengthen the regimes grip on information and cuts off the people that want to inform themselves outside of gremlin propaganda
Weaponized internet to use against Russia will cause backlash from the world. US had weaponized SWIFT banking system, weaponized Petrodollar, weaponized human rights, weaponized dirty MSM for propaganda, weaponized freedom, democracy, oil, economic sanctions, etc, etc. Even weaponized seizure of assets of foreign countries. So, why would many countries allowed themselves to be manipulated, controlled and at this mercy. They will move away to develop their own system or collaborate with other countries to be independent.
This has got to be the most documented war in history. I get the feel the only thing missing are the names and faces of the on the ground soldiers, oh wait, never mind.
I fear that documentation won’t matter. Evidence doesn’t matter now. You can present evidence, and people will screech “fake” at you, and that’s the end of it. Humanity is a failed project.
This is going to have the opposite effect in that it will just accelerate their developing their own system. Which I personally think is a great development. American/Western hegemony on the levers of power (telecoms, internet, financial, currency, etc) must be dismantled.
Great job documenting on this topic. Nevertheless, I find this concern of disconnecting Russia from the rest of the world a complete nonsense and against democracy. PS: It's a shame your nebula & curiosity stream bundle is only for new subscribers. You are loosing lots of users already subscribed to curiosity stream 😉
Some follow-up videos I recommend:
Russia's cyber attacks on Ukraine: nebula.app/videos/techaltar-putins-cyberattacks-are-weak-for-now
Russia's Chechen wars: nebula.app/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-the-chechen-wars
Russia's invasion of Georgia: nebula.app/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-the-russian-invasion-of-georgia
The history of Ukraine's independence: nebula.app/videos/the-great-war-the-actual-history-of-ukrainian-independence-i-the-great-war-1922
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You remind me of the main crashcourse guy and idk why.
and of course, totally inaccessible for russians because we have been banned from international payments, duh.
Great content
Why dont talk about USA authoritarian???where does usa finds the right to use private companies for its intentions???
We're on the verge of a cyberpunk world.
If that happens. the Internet would be gone forever only local internets will exist!
2 errors in the video:
- No, Russian govt has no plans of cutting Russia off the Internet, only capability. That Sovereign Internet Act was mostly for DPI (for targeted blocking of sites) and also readiness in case it's cut off the Internet by adversaries.
- Telegram didn't find a way around DPI, it found ways around IP blocking. DPI was implemented later as part of aforementioned law.
Sounds like north korean intra net. you must be proud.
Thats like your opinion
@@ozymandias7592 buy a brain
A few countries with a tiny fraction of world population want to dictate global telecommunications.
In other words, they're creating a "Great Firewall" just like China. I think Russia wants to become more like China in more ways than just that...
i really dont think people understand how bad this actually is. once they're are two separated flows of data/systems cyber warfare is really going to pick up. because the risk of crippling one another without having consequence and tracking is going to implode. this is just so bad!
Nerds. Go enjoy the outdoors lol
@@yoreldelagunja8057 nerds run your life.
@@yoreldelagunja8057 as he types from his smartphone/PC
I think we have that already. China...enough room for third
Westerners did this to themselves lmao 🤡🤡🤡
As a network engineer myself I love your explaination, very clean and top level view!
Kudos for the simple explanations of DNS and Internet Routing. Just the right balance of technical terms (e.g. AS in BGP context) while delivering the required information to understand the issue!
Glad you liked it, I was struggling for quite a long time to find the balance between overexplaining and oversimplifying the topic :D
It will soon be irrelevant as the decentralised blockchain internet(s) is growing fast.
@@beomc4539 That's complete nonsense. The "decentralised blockchain internet" still relies on all of those base layers.
@@TechAltar 0:50 not internasional but west. west
North Korea uses Bootstrap
From my relatively uneducated point of view, one thing about this leapt out at me: If some or all of those cloud services were to deny Russia access, what are the odds of Russia turning to China for those cloud services listed in this video? If China has been managing their own web services since the inception of the Internet, surely that would be a viable option, no? I recognize that it would still probably bring the Russian internet to a temporary grinding halt even if such a switchover were to happen, but it wouldn't be as catastrophic, right? Is that a possibility or would it be unlikely to happen, differences between government doctrine or incompatibility with systems or w/e getting in the way?
Think Russia would prefer a dependency on western countries as opposed to be subject to Chinese rules they trust even less.
China would happily extend its market into Russia as long as they won't be affected by sanctions themselves.
Microsoft, Amazon, Apple all have separate server operating in China. Like Azure, AWS and iCloud all available in China (these services can help get across firewall actually, for example, setup a cloud server on AWS or Azure for routing data, but will got banned immediately, iCloud Drive is the only cloud storage services that can be access with fast speed in China and outside, other Chinese providers are slow outside and their client softwares are the worst, Dropbox Google Drive, Box, all other famous providers are banned, only OneDrive and iCloud are legal, but OneDrive only available in China for enterprise account) but maintain separate from internet outside of China. Google is the only outsider but Chinese government still demand Google to provide limited services such as android source code access and chrome updates. And Google agreed. Because China has leverage that other companies can’t say nope, Microsoft even made a special edition only exclusive to Chinese government that without any telemetry at all, Chinese government even gained permission to check source code of windows. China is Apple’s second largest market in the world, China produces most products sell on Amazon and most Android phone brands are Chinese, so these companies have no choice but obey China. However these leverages don’t exist in Russia.
China now even has leverage to let Elon Mush shut up. Gigafactory in Shanghai has been suspended for over a month, but Elon Musk just pretend nothing happened, in contrast, he complained a lot when gigafactory just shutdown for couple of days in the states.
@@abbofun9022 Not necessarily. Over the past few decades, the US has proven multiple times that they are not trustable themselves, especially from Russian eyes. Hence, they might regard China as being the smaller problem.
As someone totally outside the tech world, I really appreciate your simplified explanations. Based on the positive comments from others who seem to know their ways around these things, It sounds like you satisfied most of the experts too -- that's quite a feat!
In my view they are actually not only damaged by this, but also blessed, that they are also cut off of tik tok there. It saves their youth.
@@VoltecGames yes russia is truly blessed
a bright future for russias youth is guaranteed now
LMAO
Well its not meant like that xd obviously their youths future is now bad, but the thing, that tik tok is banned, is a good thing actually.
@@VoltecGames tiktok bad
A solid piece of research and analysis, well presented
For propaganda, sure.
@@beomc4539 🥱
@@beomc4539 ur funny dude
From Russia, this looks like a pretty dumb lie.:-)
@@andrejsokolov9431 agreed, this all just a big propaganda
I have a cousin in Russia. A few weeks ago i received a short email from him asking "why aren't you responding to my messages". I sent him several responses, but I haven't heard back from him. Its clear that all our email messages are being blocked. Apparently only that one slipped through.
Bull**** Lol
Взрослые люди такую чушь несут на этой ветке, чему удивляться, автор канала оголтелый русофоб, просто сгусток ненависти.
It's always useful to remember that the arms race between ponderous authoritarian governments and non-centralized, diversely motivated private actors is usually won by the smaller, faster actors. No amount of hireling power thrown around can close every hole in the fence; just like no amount of black cloth can hide the sunrise.
You don’t need to close every hole to block 95% of people
@@hdog679 but the 5% will lead 20% more to the holes, and they'll bring 20-40% more. "Lure of the Forbidden", and all that.
None of this firewalling will solve the UR Party regime's problems anyway; because those are all inside the wall.
Economically, Russia is market economy, just as China, USA, France.
Politically, it is more centralised than USA or France (but less centralised than China).
Looks like you mix this concepts in your message.
@@alphaomegaaz19 The economical part will probably change soon, too, becoming almost fully centralised.
@@ContraVsGigi the fed is much decentralised eh? comic crackpot u!
I don't get what's supposed to be so difficult about network private DNS. Most countries have it, it's merely a filtered version of upstream DNS, some entries added, some removed, and local ISPs are obligated to relay it via their own DNS cache servers to the end customer. I have a private DNS at home as well.
You really think a DNS on a Pi for your home is equal to a massive network of DNS servers that need all kinds of fancy (BGP, IGMP, etc) and performance?
@@jamegumb7298 A DNS Query is a DNS Query regardless of whether its going to a Pi or a server cluster. The only difference is scale and capacity. That said, within Russia, they don't even need to roll out new servers at all. Russia can simply order their ISPs to forward all requests for their TLDs to the existing servers that manage those TLDs, bypassing the root servers entirely. Now, if they want to hijack Non-Russian domains, they will need more infrastructure but remember they are only serving the population of Russia and maybe Belarus which together is still less than half the US Population. I seriously doubt they would have any issue whatsoever handling the traffic, especially with caching being done by intermediate systems.
I wonder how satellite systems tie in with this. Are they on a separate or semi separate system.
The satalite systems are controlled by the ground station. They can turn on or off connections.
ICBM without a warhead
Satellite support for Russian gps has been cut off. It’s a separate system
@@dirtyaznstyle4156 Yes, it was cut off. Atleast Russia have GLONASS system.
@agapp11able Yes Putin knew that Russia risked such sanctions if he proclaimed he would invade and annex Ukraine. Exciting whether Putin is going to drink champagne for his high risk actions, or North Korea-like conditions will be the gain.
The USSR fell once they started getting information outside of their nation, blocking user getting alternate information will just result in hardening the regime
Interesting how this analysis doesn’t get applied the other way around for the US
Meanwhile strongest propaganda: West.
I am blessed I am in Serbia, where we don't have Russian and Western propaganda, just neutral.
@@edwinvargas7969 wdym
@@darkithnamgedrf9495
он имеет ввиду то, что сша давно ведет военные действия в сети. Просто в сша это не так заметно, потому что контрполь над сетью давно в руках правительства. Исключение из DNS российских доменов не предотвратит их функционирование в рф. Но западные пользователи могут испытывать трудности в доступе к ним.
В русском языке есть такая пословица "перекладывать с больной головы на здоровую". Это значит оправдывать себя тем, что обвинять других в том что сам делаешь.
The main reason for the fall of the ussr was the failure of their economic policies
Sure, the availability of outside info helped somewhat, but don't overestimate it, it's not that important
Is this really what we want? Won't it be harder for non state media to get to the people?
Be attentive to such presenters. Speculation and propaganda.
Exactly. The Internet is so pervasive that although there might be an initial desire to block the Internet, any sane person would suddenly also be confronted with the reality that a lot of benefits also rely on the Internet... So in the end you see the attempted solution to only partially block the Internet which then becomes a very complex thing. China is an example of the "Great Wall of the Internet" attempting to isolate itself but can't completely from the rest of the world.
This is similar to PayPal blocking Russia. It mainly hurts the individuals, like digital Artists who lost their main way of accepting payment.
(Also the PayPal case is especially ironic, since Ukranians had to make Russian accounts before then as PayPal didn't acknowledge Ukrane as its own country)
You can't blackmail the world with the internet, the financial system, etc. and expect that same world to follow you.
@@Solid_Snake99 I guess he is just like you always trying to justify what the US and UK and the EU do regardless
@@Solid_Snake99 So if Nato were planning to arm Cuba and Mexico with nukes right on Americas doorstep, and the US invaded both Cuba and Mexico.
Who then will be in the right?
@@Solid_Snake99
No normal person likes war, but sometimes conditions are created for it, who is to blame, it never matters.
Russia is the one blackmailing? Bruh it's the west blackmailing russia into complying with them lol
@@Solid_Snake99 Are you like 10 years old? lol. Everyone has an agenda including NATO.
Usa companies unilaterally deciding who should and shouldn't be allowed on internet and calling it attack on dictatorship 😂 How ironic is that.
If you are from russia, how do you like using VPN ( American i guess) to actually go on western websites which were blocked by Russians because they “spread false informations “ 😂😂😂😂 and again i know that even on wikipedia you can find who attacked Poland and how actually started WW2 , not the version what they teach in russia so they blocked wikipedia too there 😂😂😂😂😂
Not to mention, internet is invention by bad bad fasists west 😅😂 why you have so desire to go on “western” internet 😂
at 1:51 the First company name would be Verisign not Vesisign, thanks.
i hate everything about this.
the best thing about the internet is that it's global and that you can basically talk with anyone real time. and realize that we are all the same, but our governments might have different agendas which they force upon us.
If Russia is disconnected, certainly they would have their own DNS. This causes zero problems for worldwide DNS use because Russia does not use it. In the same way China is disconnected.
Yeah if they ever came back it would be an issue
@@dosmastrify That's a pretty big "if" at this point.
Once the disconnect happens, it will never be undone.
They would only come back after some kind of political reboot (be that a coup, Putin dying, imposed regime change, etc)
No russia - no problems
The internet and tech in general is under the control of the USA. Its kinda of worrying how much power they can exert just of that
Exactly. I was very OK with the US at the helm up to this point, but now I feel like I was betrayed , stabbed in the heart. I thought freedom meant freedom for everyone. Internet for everyone, no matter the nation, war or dictator... It's a very sad day in history
@laci272
Probably you lived in delusion, and you have woke up and realized that freedom is only a slogan.
Technology always could be a political tool. For example the Internet and the Tor was made the USA gov, GPS was used in the military conflict.
@@laci272 you clown the internet is created on the US for military reasons so of course they control majority of the internet. If you want to be independent then copy what China did.
If that were true there wouldn't be so many Russian propaganda bots spamming their talking points the whole time
But other countries and their citizens aren’t innovate enough to be the leader in the industry. Don’t hate cause the US government actually allows its citizens to be creative and innovate. Dictatorship and authoritarianism limits creativity. In order for a country to be a super power, the people must be creative. From these creations, the government formulated regulations and what not.
Please, I’m tired of people saying the US has to much control when they are the innovators. Should the US give up its intellectual property to say Russia or China? Please get a grip in the comments and try to think a lil deeper than the surface 🙄
Yeah, pretty worrying how much power some nations have over others.
USA right?
the only country that no heavily dependent on US in internet is chins
It's more worrying that government's, particularly authoritarian, try to tightly censor the internet. They almost always botch it, which is one reason Americans continue to dominate.
@@ghost_particle yeah it's definitely USA
USA Alone cannot do anything. If USA is becoming decentralized, it will face just as many problems. This is what happens when many other countries abandon you or you abandon them.
One of the best videos I've seen from this channel. Keep up the good work.
it's crap
@@supovar9455 Why's it crap? Elaborate please.
@@m.heyatzadeh i live in russia, that information been actual 2 years ago
They have problems with youtube channel icons not shown and instagram blocked. But instagram had never been popular there 'cause their own social media like vk and telegram are ways more suitable to them
While this video is based on facts, the analysis is not entirely correct. Even tho Russia experimented with the strategy or blocking certain websites it proved to be pointless. Currently, Russia's strategy is the openness while western strategy is to block Russia's voice and substage Russia's infrastructure. So, Russia's alternative name registry was not invented to compete with other name registries but to be a back up in case an emergency. Because a significant portion of Russia’s infrastructure is heavily reliant on the Internet Western sabotage can be devastating. So, currently, if West decide to cut Russia from the global internet or throttle Russia's access, or cease to exist, you know lol, the internet in Russia world be unaffected. But again, full block is not even possible as the west is less than a quarter of the world, so even if the West tries to cut Russia's internet there are other countries not mentioned in this video that Russia's traffic can be routed through, like china, India, many Arab countries, Africa, satellites etc, but without Russia's own name registry ICANN may just become ICANNOT
What are you talking about? 🇷🇺 strategy is openness and the west is blocking 🇷🇺 voice? WOW just fucking WOW! In what alternative reality you’re living in?
Thanks bro for calming me down
@@alexpan7819 Yeah, no problem. Gotta be prepared for anything when a President of one of the top two nuclear powers accuses and threatens the other of things he didn’t do and then handshakes an invisible person in front of the whole world.
Yea, that's true.
Today west doing more to block access, ТСПУ (just DPI) - ressets your connection to website. West methods - content replacement (almost impossible to detect without human), site is loading forever.
@@fedyaf2710 Can you share more details about that content replacement? Can you bypass without VPN? I couldn’t find any info on how it works.
Gotta correct you on one thing, Chechnya was not an invasion by Russia. How can one invade their own country? It was Civil War.
Thanks for the info, I was not aware of this.
I have to remind my fellow Americans constantly that many under 50 years old in Russia who grew up on an open internet do not agree with this war. I've been playing online videogames and talking about nerd topics with them for my entire life. I met my current day best fried through a school friend who was 100 percent Russian. He moved back to Russia in middle school but I still have my best friend I talk to daily thanks to him. I am unsure of what ages are being drafted in Russia but he would be 28 at this time and might be fighting or may have died in Ukraine already for all i know.
Good to know. And the poor guys who are forced to go to Ukraine! I have often thought that the so-called leaders that want these wars should fight it out themselves. School yard rules. We'd be back to the old days with the biggest, bad-est men, or women, running the countries. Guess it really wouldn't work these days!
He's probably in St Petersburg working in marketing
They draft them 18-20 years old.
As a Russian, I can assure you that the number of people willing to topple this crazy regime, once and for all and purge Russia and the whole world of this evil is way waaay bigger than you can imagine, even bigger is the number of those against this war.
But yeah, sadly enough, those over 50 generally tend to be in favour of putin and all of them, all of them folks watch TV, none trusts "the internet" and by the way, they openly admit it when and if asked. Yeah it sounds ridiculous but that's the reality we live in.
As a Russian I'm in complete awe at what's going on, definitely this evil we're dealing with today, should have been stopped earlier...
I'm a positive thinker and I'm of the opinion that we will overcome, but in order to do that right now we've got to be looking for friends, not enemies, if you know what I mean. And you're absolutely right pointing out that there are many Russians who are against the regime and what it's doing as much as other sane people, regardless of where they come from originally.
@@someoneyouknow5040 Stay safe and I wish the best of luck to you. Honestly Americans over 50 would be acting in a similar way to Russians if put in a similar situation. The old guard needs to give up power and allow the younger generation to decide what kind of country they want to live in. We are the ones navigating the job market and trying to build a foundation while things are becoming more and more unattainable for many. I really hope the Russian people are successful at overthrowing Putin.
Great job, thank you.
If Russia manages to isolate itself, ala North Korea, the government propaganda will stick much more easily. This is bad for Russians and bad for the global community. We need information coming in and out of countries.
True. Internet is the easiest field for the freedom in the world. If we loose freedom of internet, we will never be able to gain freedom of the world.
no our generation is very aware
@@Crocodebil they’d believe the Russians more if they cannot contact anyone else
Coffee, Jira tickets, and TechAltar - Let's gooooo!
Are your Software engineer?
Never heard someone be happy about having jira tickets but you do you.
A masochist huh, I see...
@@totallynotgad Indeed!
I am also happy sometimes for jira tickets... cause work 😂🤣
Not now tho... project changed.
Impressive dok. of the problems laying a head
Thanks for sharing
Im Russian, yet i still can see this and also still on UA-cam.
This conflict over there is really shaking up the entire 🌎🌍,
Russia accounts would be deactivated.
The sanctions on Russia should remain indefinately.Any warmongering States seriously threatning nuclear weapon use should be Economically Neutralised for InterNational Security reasons.They are Isis with real Nukes.
I am taking a university course on how the Internet Works right now and at the beginning of the semester the professor guaranteed that at least one huge internet accident will happen
So interesting to see how huge the repercussions of some of these things are
I think you should be felt up
A few years ago, AWS went down, and a quarter of the sites on the Web stopped working for half a day. One developer pushing bad code could have huge consequences for the Internet as a whole.
Like if there were to be another Carrington event just about in the next few weeks, months? 🤪
I don't understand how a country can request a change over a domain it that has no authority over.
Correction, not a domain but worse a TLD.
Go ask the USA.
Ukrainian people have become the world rulers now . Telling or commanding others people about what to do
Does your brain work? Ears and eyes ok? He literally covered it in the video…….
Ukraine asked and they were denied. What the hell more do you want? Anybody can “request” something it doesn’t mean it has to be considered or accepted.
@@CalifornianSupremacy Kevin, I wrote "I don't understand how anyone can request something like that at all." It's good that the request was denied. But that is not the point I was making.
Note: That my reply is does not contain rhetorical toxic questions.
Have mostly been feeling this so far by not being able to access obscure russian development forums
Russia's internet capabilities are probably about as effective as their armies.
so there winning then
@@johnsmith-ce2tq yeah it’s gone really well for them so far 🙃🤣🤣🤣
Give it time...
Ukrainian and Russian IT are the best in the world
@@lorrainetaylor5894 careful whose views you trust...
DNS they can basically change at their own whim.
Although that explains why I haven't noticed much of a change, as I build my own DNS from root servers and cache that locally, meaning that they have to attack ICANN directly to affect me.
"Slighty slimplified version of DNS" is more like: When you look up a website, a server looks through a list of addresses until it finds what you searched, and gives your browser the IP address to connect to, to show you the website. You didn't explain DNS, you explained a hierarchy.
This is bad. It means the US can switch off the internet
@Annette Jones yeah bro go invade a country, thatll be bad for you
Excellent.
Nice to see a detailed and research report
isnt "global internet" a pleonasm? (like "kick the ball with your foot" or "I myself")
inter already means global or maybe even universal, doesnt it?
I always wonder what would galaxy civilization do with latency on galaxy scale... but I always supposed it would still be just the internet and not "galaxnet" or "galactic internet".
Even if you cut yourself or a country off "internet", it is still global, I guess. Like if I do not watch national TV it does not convert it from "national TV" to "a TV", does it?
Thoughts, useless thoughts, I am gonna do something productive now.
No, inter- simply means a connection between different things. Doesn't have to be global, or universal.
You mean and imply superfluous, redundant, pleonastic tautologies? I'm in total, 100% agreement.
We couldn't' cooperate on Earth and now we can't in space either.
Russia is loosing its developers. They are all getting up and moving to countries with open internet policies. Russia might succeed in keeping domains going but a nations software infrastructure operational and competitive... You need brains for that, free thinking open minded brains.
3 months and 6 months bootcamps do the job, the rest of real pro guys can be brought from other countries, where people don't care about this war. Plus, really, many Russian devs moved out Russia, but beacuae of launguage barrier, they don't find jobs, and still work for Russian companies remotely using VPN
Pulling this out of your ass?
Whaching that Bul***it from Russia without VPN: What are you talking about?
I’m worried this’ll inspire other authoritarians to take similar steps furthering their hold on their citizens and making dissent even harder in a time where overthrowing a totalitarian regime is harder than ever.
Despite the atrocities Russia as a state has committed against Ukraine’s citizens and the citizens of other countries, I still feel bad for their peoples since the vast majority of the Russian citizenry never wanted this fucked up war.
Edit: I should also add that I hope through all of this ICANN among those other big infrastructure companies you mentioned like Cogent simply remain neutral outside of the most dire of circumstances, doing otherwise could set a terrible precedent regardless of how you feel about this atrocity of a war.
@@alexsilent5603 why don’t you, as your username suggests, stay silent?
@@alexsilent5603 That’s just flat out untrue. You’re either a fool or a troll.
Not sure about "vast majority". Major part of the people's i know actually support occupation of Ukraine. Just like they did support occupation of Crimea in 2014 😔
@@alexsilent5603 completely deranged
@@julm7744 *Edit: The poll is very suspect on further thought due to it being taken in an authoritarian state. I’ll still keep the rest of the comment despite the fact the survey is almost certainly false.*
If that’s true then that’s disappointing to say the least. I guess it really goes to show the power of propaganda.
That’s why the internet however is important, it makes it possible (though not necessarily always easy) to get news and information about what’s going on with your government and the rest of the world that isn’t just propaganda from your own government.
Out of curiosity though do you have and/or remember the exact statistics from said poll though?
Not big of a problem for Russia, russia being the largest country and its ally China which is large as well but mostly the most populated country in the world.
Subbed... Thank you for great content.
I feel sad that Russian children won't be subjected to drag queen shows and lgtv+ books in the library for second-graders :(
Russia isn't being cut off from the internet, yes the government was talking about it for 3 or 4 years but other than blocking Facebook and Twitter (which is a good thing imo) nothing really happened, we aren't getting cut off any time soon
a lot of Russian creatives relying on international income are VPN reliant and claiming foreign origins. Finland, Bulgaria, etc. they still can post with Instagram but no messaging available. this may yet change. most have gone to Telegram as well.
*But, TechAlter, ICANN now did disconnected Russia right ? PLease can you de-couple the clutter please ---- I don't understand*
TechAltar, why isn't this video on Nebula?
Guten Morgen 😅
It just hurts my eyes to see the map in the thumbnail... So many things are wrong in this picture
9:20
"destructive code"
that's called malware.
It's actually Mally. Or Molly if female. Or Molit if gender-neutral.
At 2:20 do you mean Verisign?
Anyone claiming being an bjective and honest person is sure to be a biased and untrusted person.
There is literally no such thing as being unbiased
Nice video. Thanks for sharing
Me watching this in Russia “damn that’s wild”
Да
Да это дико
there is a small thpo in the video, it’s Verisign not vesisign
I feel bad for my Russian friend if the whole internet cuts off on his country 😔
VPN is solution comrade
But if it stops this BS agressiony it is ok.
Imo modern "conflict" is network based anyways.
Weapons should be superfluous if you can disable infrastructure..
In theory
Thank you! I'm Russian too which is very sad information for me. I hope I can leave this country once and for all.
Doesnt seem to have been true
It wasn't cut off
They blocked unpopular instagram and grew their own social media like vk and telegram
I started noticing that torrent forums started having more russian users 'cause now they have legal excuse for hacked software
Why so many sound effects? I think your voice is more than enough.
right idk if it's only with me but his voice is not crisp it's like muddled into background
Being not reliant on western Internet / tech should be what every countries do.
Because they can also just flip the switch and make any country they want in danger.
sure, history proved that nationalism and isolation are good for people...
@@videojeroki so you're saying all countries should stay dependent on usa and some european countries
@@KhizarKhan2001 i say every countries should let people decide what is best for them and the governement should stay out of their life because history proved that they are incompetent at best.
That's why we need decentralized internet, they wont be able to flip the switch easily.
De-globalization is happening quickly in many different ways.
When I heard of this,half a decade ago was it,my balls shrunk to a painfull shadow of they usual self.The implications seem sinister. While I personally feel the internet is destroying accountability and causing moral disassociation,a nation who tries to disconnect must have some reason,perhaps the destruction of the existing one…
Yes! And commas have a space afterward, but not before. This would make what you write less painful for everyone else to try to read.
Good stuff! Thanks for the very informative video!
Russia is NOT getting cut off the global Internet. It has decided a few years back it wanted its country Internet to have to option to connect, or not connect to selected parts of the global Internet. In particular, ability to run independent of any infrastructure of USA and the west in general. Put in firewall to control traffic and content. This is not so different from any country who has have power to disconnect by physical cut, or by making traffic cannot route to it. Twitter was blocked routinely this way.
In short, Russia is simply doing what China have done, with slight technical and policy differences to fit itself. It can still connect to anywhere it wants which has not blocked it. The big difference is Russia Internet and its working does not depend on anything that come out of USA or its allies. This is not true for many countries.
ICANN is an UN organization not controlled by any country. No one country can block any other country using ICANN top level domain, or modify the DNS software which the UN agency control. The Domain name infrastructure consist of many servers in many countries. They belong to the countries, each alone can run the entire Internet. All the distributed servers serve only as redundancy.
Russia did not build own DNS. It took existing DNS technical systems and made it sovereign, independent. This is what China did too. China entire Internet systems today run using own equipment. There is not a single American or European router, switch or server in sight. Russia have benefit much by also using China equipment in addition to own. Both does not need to import anything from the west. Indeed they are more advanced.
The west may claim it has 'blocked' Russia from global Internet. This is an impossibility. Russia continue to connect to all countries that specifically did not block it. Just as USA cannot connect to Russia if Russia blocked it. You know, N. Korea blocked everything American, and China blocked all American social platforms. Facebook is blocked by a dozen countries.
Today there are only two countries whose Internet is sovereign - China and Russia. Who's is not sovereign? Why its USA. It is in the sorry position what it cannot block any country and any traffic. It has no national firewall. It does not even control the .com, .net, .org domains which it originated. And today there are dozens of domain names created so that even these are no longer essential.
What both Russia and China did, as superpowers, is to protect its own Internet and its global access from being dependent, or blocked by anybody under American command. Both are doing just fantastic thank you very much. Who is the big loser? USA. It tried to cut Russia off, failed miserably. It pulled its big business out of Russia, which is exactly what Putin wanted ! Russia is now free from western shackle. While USA business lost billions in income, stock price crashes, and lost the huge Russian market permanently. Putin is smiling. Do you see Biden smiling?
@@biggusduckus6489 Russia has full access to China telecom, networking, Internet software, computing and cloud technologies, the best in the world. It is up to Russia what they chose because there are no sanctions. It's a matter of gearing up tech skills, payment. But now Russia is racking it in by the billions from gas price increase to Europe, payable in Rubles. Look to Russia to implement the second best comm infrastructure in the world after China. Europe in contrast is third world because it has low tech in telecom, no tech everything else. It has to buy from US, while China won't sell. Also, as the Ukraine war show, NATO in Europe is also third world. It has bits of stuff but in no condition to use of fight anything. It has no attack weapons because US keep all these to itself, deny Europe attack capability. For such a bunch of weaklings, their arrogance is off the chart.
Watching this video from Moscow while I still can 🤡
Moskal cope
@@SloveLDK that's what I'm doing as a clown from the fucking circus country
@@SloveLDK Ukro cope 🤡🤡🤡
Russia cutting off from the Internet as a whole is a really, really bad thing, whether we do it to them or they just cut ties themselves.
I can totally understand their perspective on DNS, however. Obviously they can't depend on a system when that system can choose to deny them service.
man cannot live on internet alone.
Nice video! added to my war Playlist :) ⭐️
After a decade or two, India will follow suit ...
Yes we will, just need to build a 10 Trillion $ economy.
@@debanjanbarman7212 how about they start cleaning the nasty streets and the creepy men.
yeah u guys need to do this if u value ur cultural integrity and the moral integrity of ur people and ur nation
just look at wat the europeans and Americans are trying to do to their own children, it's incredibly disgusting and immoral a total abomination
First step is get out of UA-cam and create your own video sharing platform. And create your own version of Google. China already did it.
What’s going on with the map on the thumbnail?
Russia has a full developed operating platform Aurora, that has been used by the gov and military and will now be used in civilian spheres.
Excellent episode.
I think everybody at some point is going to get their own internet given that how much influence the US has in this sector
Hey, you misspelled Verisign
I have online friends in Russia I can't even talk to right now. I see innocent citizens on both sides who didn't ask for any of this. And I hope one day everything can be restored.
They likely don't want a WW3 but having an "enemy" to use as an excuse for just about everything fits them very well. Was the commies/russians for a good while until the early 90s. Then it became the Arabs and now we're back to russians.
Yes, it's typical situation when rich and powerful becomes even more rich and powerful and poor, disabled, minimum wage workers suffer.
Why you lost access to them though?
one country invaded another and is launching missiles at apartment complex's. There are no 2 evils this time. I could write a thesis on the war crimes of Russia at this point. China does not have a single leg to stand on. China imports 80 percent of its food and if cut off within a year 500 million of its citizens would starve.
Install telegram, few of your friends might have the same nickname over there
If you move to Ukraine right now, you will only see one evil side.
Good luck!
Russian traffic is going through their own ReTN and Fjord for me. A lot of loud talk at the start of the war, but now the situation has calmed down.
Sad to see Russia cut off the internet. No more endless supply of drunken fail videos.
This seems something we really need to worry about.
I want to see Russia punished, but if we eventually cut off ordinary Russians off (even those using VPN's etc) we cut ordinary Russians off from seeking truth. Or at the very least views, opinions, and facts other than what the Russian government present to Ordinary Russian people. It's a bad idea. Cutting off domains is fine, but if this is the first step to blocking all Russian internet communication with the WWW then its a very bad idea.
Ordinary Russians dont seek truth.
What does it matter they're trying to do it anyways their authoritarian government they don't want the truth and 80% of the people just are spoon fed Russian propaganda on a daily basis
I also want to see bush and obama on trail in international court for their war crimes in middle east
Thank you for this video.
I'm no expert, but surely this isn't good ? the internet is the only way most ordinary Russians can see the truth on what is happening. Interesting to see Russia building it's own system though, although these measures obviously target business and government how do ordinary folks in Russia now get outside info ? Your explanation is great and as I said I'm no expert but if I were placed in Russia now how would I access foreign news, probably best not to say or they will block it lol, anyone tell me?
its not russia isnt cut from global internet this guy is either lying or delusional. just hope its the latter.
@@harukrentz435 they aren't, but now they have the capability to do so
What on Earth is that map in the thumbnail? Russia seems to have been shunted back in it, with its Baltic and Black Sea coastlines squished into central asia instead.
Its not going to help Russia to transition away from Western services if so many of its IT professionals have left the country.
As if they need to be in Russia...
@@isokabooks3758 I see. So they are leaving Russia so they can work for Russia. And get paid in rubles because everyone likes zombie currencies. And who in Russia would worry about sensitive infrastructure code coming in from anti-Russian countries.
Surely, you are not that naive to believe that all Russia's IT professionals have left Russia😏
@@chippandenga6722 Surely, you are not that naive to engage in the binary thinking that statement requires.
Well how do you come to the conclusion that isolating Russia is NOT going to help it wean its reliance from western services and also how do you know that they do not have the professional expertise to develop replacement services?
As coincidence would have it, just 2 days ago (4/27/22), someone posted a link to a video on the war in Ukraine that ended with the ".ru" suffix. I clicked it, and was able to access the video. Had the video included translation, I might have watched more than a few seconds here and there skipping through it. But, this demonstrated that the ".ru" country code still remains accessible.
It seems to me that the bigger value of cutting off Russia from the internet is to diminish their hacking abilities, more so than precluding their media presentation to the west
Turkey at 10:30 "Hey, mom, I'm on TV"
what's happening to Russia really shows you the wisdom of the Chinese.
They need it for the new iron curtain 2
I still can't believe Russia thought they would take Kyiv in 3 days and the rest of the world would be like yeah that is all fine let's get back to business as usual.
I mean who the fuck said they would take Kyiv in 3 days with the army they've been building up?
@@LeelaSlayys Putin LOL
@@LeelaSlayys a lot of people thought that, including many Ukrainians and military analysts, until it didn't happen.
And if Russia did take Ukraine in few days, West would probably accept it and blowback would be much smaller. It was a gamble, but Russia badly miscalculated
It worked in 2014.
Governments are owned by large multinational companies. See how many are listed on the various stock exchanges. The large companies tell govs what to do.
Cutting of Russia from the Internet would just strengthen the regimes grip on information and cuts off the people that want to inform themselves outside of gremlin propaganda
Okay kiddo.
Weaponized internet to use against Russia will cause backlash from the world. US had weaponized SWIFT banking system, weaponized Petrodollar, weaponized human rights, weaponized dirty MSM for propaganda, weaponized freedom, democracy, oil, economic sanctions, etc, etc. Even weaponized seizure of assets of foreign countries. So, why would many countries allowed themselves to be manipulated, controlled and at this mercy. They will move away to develop their own system or collaborate with other countries to be independent.
West propaganda
What's the use fb on your own
This has got to be the most documented war in history. I get the feel the only thing missing are the names and faces of the on the ground soldiers, oh wait, never mind.
next war will b fought by robots
I fear that documentation won’t matter.
Evidence doesn’t matter now.
You can present evidence, and people will screech “fake” at you, and that’s the end of it.
Humanity is a failed project.
Not too bad article....
...actualy I like this channel.
Danke sehr.
Lets hope we have a russian-free CSGO in the future 🙂
Said the kid who lives with his mom.
@@OutragedPufferfish Alright, Ivan.
@@informant09 "Time for bed poopsikins!" "Okay mom! Just let me save my game and finish discussing geopolitics on the internet real quick!"
Russia shouldn't be cut off from Internet.
This is going to have the opposite effect in that it will just accelerate their developing their own system. Which I personally think is a great development. American/Western hegemony on the levers of power (telecoms, internet, financial, currency, etc) must be dismantled.
what will replace the void will be much worse. There is a reason you choose to have a google and youtube account over none American competition.
i know it's out of topic but can you make another video on kaios after their third release there is no google apps like before
Great job documenting on this topic. Nevertheless, I find this concern of disconnecting Russia from the rest of the world a complete nonsense and against democracy.
PS: It's a shame your nebula & curiosity stream bundle is only for new subscribers. You are loosing lots of users already subscribed to curiosity stream 😉
Don’t worry all that behaviour will go against west, Russia is already as their own national internet