At a meeting of the human rights council, russian dictator vladimir putin announced plans to block phone calls from so-called unfriendly countries.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fThis initiative is being justified as necessary to provide \u201cdigital protection for citizens\u201d from phone and online scammers \u2014 a topic that russian media have recently been artificially amplifying.<\/p>\n
However, the real reason behind such measures is the informational isolation of russian citizens, which the kremlin has been systematically and gradually implementing since the start of the full-scale invasion. In just the past few days, under the pretext of \u201csecurity threats,\u201d russia has blocked WhatsApp, FaceTime, Snapchat, and even the popular children\u2019s gaming platform Roblox. At the same time, russia is restricting access to tools that bypass internet blocks and is widely shutting down mobile internet.<\/p>\n
The kremlin\u2019s ultimate goal is the creation of a \u201csovereign internet\u201d with full state control over all sources of information and communication tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At a meeting of the human rights council, russian dictator vladimir putin announced plans to block phone calls from so-called unfriendly countries. \u25ab\ufe0fThis initiative is being justified as necessary to provide \u201cdigital protection for citizens\u201d from phone and online scammers \u2014 a topic that russian media have recently been artificially amplifying. However, the real reason…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}