Putin Calls Internet CIA Project......

[MMC]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a "CIA project" and warned Russians against making Google searches.

Putin assured a group of young journalists that the Internet was controlled from the start by the CIA and its surveillance continues today."That's life. That's how it's organised by Americans. You know all of this started during the dawn of the Internet as a special project of the CIA. And it keeps on developing," Putin said in televised comments.

Responding to questions from a young pro-Kremlin blogger, Putin warned that information entered on Google "all goes through servers that are in the States, everything is monitored there".

He also made ominous comments on Russia's most popular search engine Yandex, suggesting it could become more tightly controlled.

Yandex is "partly registered abroad and not just for tax reasons, but for other reasons too", Putin said, mentioning it is partly owned by international investors and reiterating his fear of foreign control of the Internet. When Yandex was starting out, Putin said, they were "pressured" to have "that many Americans and this many Europeans among the executives".

Russia this week passed in its initial stage new legislation that would force popular bloggers to register their sites and comply with similar regulations as mass media.

The 61-year-old president has frequently been scathing about the Internet, which he once described as "half pornography", unlike Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who posts snaps on Twitter.....snip~

Putin calls Internet 'CIA project'


Putin playing to Russian Journalists.....sure does keep things vague about his Intel, huh? What say ye?

 

[AliHajiSheik]

The CIA certainly didn't block any of Snowden's information. How high are Russian taxes that would make it the reason Yandex wasn't in Russia?

 

[MMC]

Oh yeah.....does anyone think he is trying to message to those in the Ukraine. Telling them to not use Google and use Yandex's search engine. He has already jumped on the issue about Western media taking things out of context.

 

[MMC]

More on this.

Putin Exposes CIA Cat Listicle Plot

On Thursday, Vladimir Putin asserted that the Internet was really a CIA project. I know it sounds crazy, but maybe he’s onto something.

We all know the official story. The Internet—and its precursor, the Arpanet—began as a Pentagon-funded network of machines used by academics, military computer scientists and other assorted nerds way back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Then one day someone figured out you could put porn on it, and before you know it: “you’ve got mail.”

And the official story is a source of national pride. The computer revolution began inside the garages of middle class California hamlets and blossomed with a dash of elbow grease and plucky determination into eBay, Facebook and World of Warcraft.

Most world leaders would probably be content allowing Americans to believe this myth, preferring our people to be happy and stupid. But not Vladimir Putin. He knows that the truth shall make us free, to borrow a phrase from the CIA’s unofficial motto.

So consider the following facts. Before everyone was online, the CIA and its frenemies in the NSA had to actually go through quite a bit of work to learn what its opponents were up to. Tapping phones, convincing disloyal foreign military officers to hand over documents and planting crude listening devices is very labor intensive, not to mention risky. These days all of that messy, dangerous work can be accomplished with a well-placed virus hiding inside an email promising a source of cheap Viagra.

Finally consider this. From Putin’s perspective, the Internet has been a source of disinformation. He has been assuring the world for weeks that Moscow is just a friendly observer to the chaos in Ukraine. And yet everyday there are new photographs and reports posting on Twitter that suggest his own Russian Spetsnaz forces are stoking the unrest. Is all of this just some coincidence? Cui bono?.....snip~

Putin Exposes CIA Cat Listicle Plot

 

[joG]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a "CIA project" and warned Russians against making Google searches.

Putin assured a group of young journalists that the Internet was controlled from the start by the CIA and its surveillance continues today."That's life. That's how it's organised by Americans. You know all of this started during the dawn of the Internet as a special project of the CIA. And it keeps on developing," Putin said in televised comments.

Responding to questions from a young pro-Kremlin blogger, Putin warned that information entered on Google "all goes through servers that are in the States, everything is monitored there".

He also made ominous comments on Russia's most popular search engine Yandex, suggesting it could become more tightly controlled.

Yandex is "partly registered abroad and not just for tax reasons, but for other reasons too", Putin said, mentioning it is partly owned by international investors and reiterating his fear of foreign control of the Internet. When Yandex was starting out, Putin said, they were "pressured" to have "that many Americans and this many Europeans among the executives".

Russia this week passed in its initial stage new legislation that would force popular bloggers to register their sites and comply with similar regulations as mass media.

The 61-year-old president has frequently been scathing about the Internet, which he once described as "half pornography", unlike Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who posts snaps on Twitter.....snip~

Putin calls Internet 'CIA project'


Putin playing to Russian Journalists.....sure does keep things vague about his Intel, huh? What say ye?

Spiegel says that Putin is ruining the Russian IT sector.

 

[Wiggen]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a "CIA project" and warned Russians against making Google searches.

Putin assured a group of young journalists that the Internet was controlled from the start by the CIA and its surveillance continues today."That's life. That's how it's organised by Americans. You know all of this started during the dawn of the Internet as a special project of the CIA. And it keeps on developing," Putin said in televised comments.

Responding to questions from a young pro-Kremlin blogger, Putin warned that information entered on Google "all goes through servers that are in the States, everything is monitored there".

He also made ominous comments on Russia's most popular search engine Yandex, suggesting it could become more tightly controlled.

Yandex is "partly registered abroad and not just for tax reasons, but for other reasons too", Putin said, mentioning it is partly owned by international investors and reiterating his fear of foreign control of the Internet. When Yandex was starting out, Putin said, they were "pressured" to have "that many Americans and this many Europeans among the executives".

Russia this week passed in its initial stage new legislation that would force popular bloggers to register their sites and comply with similar regulations as mass media.

The 61-year-old president has frequently been scathing about the Internet, which he once described as "half pornography", unlike Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who posts snaps on Twitter.....snip~

Putin calls Internet 'CIA project'


Putin playing to Russian Journalists.....sure does keep things vague about his Intel, huh? What say ye?

Careful, friend. The Putinistas on this forum are liable to rise up in righteous indignation and smack you down! They don't take kindly to anybody who points out some of Vlad the KGB Guy's more loony statements.

 

[PeteEU]

Well technically he is right... it was the CIA, US military and so on that started the internet back in the day... but other than that.. he is just crazy.

 

[ocean515]

Oh yeah.....does anyone think he is trying to message to those in the Ukraine. Telling them to not use Google and use Yandex's search engine. He has already jumped on the issue about Western media taking things out of context.

Read this the other day:

'Russian Facebook' founder flees country after being pushed out

Moscow (AFP) - The maverick founder of Russia's top social network, Pavel Durov, said Tuesday he had fled the country after selling his share in the company under pressure from the security services.

Durov told US technology news website TechCrunch he was no longer in Russia and had "no plans to go back" after social network VKontakte (In Touch) announced Monday that he had left the company.

On Monday the 29-year-old said the social network had effectively been taken over by Kremlin allies, including Igor Sechin, one of President Vladimir Putin's closest confidants.

 

[MMC]

Read this the other day:

'Russian Facebook' founder flees country after being pushed out

Moscow (AFP) - The maverick founder of Russia's top social network, Pavel Durov, said Tuesday he had fled the country after selling his share in the company under pressure from the security services.

Durov told US technology news website TechCrunch he was no longer in Russia and had "no plans to go back" after social network VKontakte (In Touch) announced Monday that he had left the company.

On Monday the 29-year-old said the social network had effectively been taken over by Kremlin allies, including Igor Sechin, one of President Vladimir Putin's closest confidants.

Afternoon Ocean :2wave: .....yeah I saw that as I was getting up some other things. Thanks for getting that up in here. Goes to show who will be looking into WHAT with the Russian search engine.

 

[ocean515]

Afternoon Ocean :2wave: .....yeah I saw that as I was getting up some other things. Thanks for getting that up in here. Goes to show who will be looking into WHAT with the Russian search engine.

For a kid who spent the last Friday of every month during the school year under a desk, with sirens blaring, it seems like deja vu all over again....

 

[MMC]

Spiegel says that Putin is ruining the Russian IT sector.

After noon Jog. :2wave: Did you see any of the Articles we got up in RMs thread on Energy and Gas?

 

[MMC]

Careful, friend. The Putinistas on this forum are liable to rise up in righteous indignation and smack you down! They don't take kindly to anybody who points out some of Vlad the KGB Guy's more loony statements.

Heya Wiggen.....that's alright. Smacktalk works both ways, except in rare cases. :lol:

 

[joG]

After noon Jog. :2wave: Did you see any of the Articles we got up in RMs thread on Energy and Gas?

I think I missed that and will take a look.

 

[MichaelW]

Looks to me like Putin wants a monopoly on internet spying.