Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin;
[ColonelCassad] In December 2024, Russia will hold exercises to disconnect the Russian segment of the Internet from the global network. The reasons are obvious - in the event of a full-fledged war with NATO, they will try to bring down the entire network infrastructure of Russia connected to the western part of the global network in the shortest possible time.
Therefore, in the conditions of a hot war with the West, we will have to exist within the framework of our segment. Testing such scenarios is an urgent need, even without references to the need to test the resilience of our segment of the Internet in the face of ongoing cyberattacks on our network infrastructure.
It remains only to wish that the exercises are successful and do not collapse the services people need in the process, including those used in the interests of the actions of our troops in Ukraine.
It is also worth noting that the DPRK lives in a mode of complete disconnection of the overwhelming majority of the population from the global network.
We (if we do not consider scenarios of direct war with the USA and NATO) are not going to disconnect from the global network and are rather guided by the Chinese experience, which has extensive experience in regulating access to the network for its citizens and cutting off unwanted services, organizations and individuals from access to the Chinese segment.
P.S. By the way. Regarding restricting access to YouTube. As expected, it works - VK Video and Rutube are gaining new authors and audience, but YouTube in the Russian Federation after the start of "degradation". The number of content authors since the start of "degradation" has decreased by 34%, and the total volume of content by 22%. Actually, everyone understands that you can turn on a VPN, but many are just too lazy.