Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions
><i>It seeks to route Russian web traffic and data through points controlled by the state and proposes building a national Domain Name System to allow the internet to continue functioning even if the country is cut off from foreign infrastructure.</i><p>The first part just seems like a forced MITM situation whilst the second makes <i>some</i> sense - in a cyber warfare scenario; however, that runs under the assumption that the DNS servers and/or entries didn't get poisoned before they're "cut-off" from foreign infrastructure. Doesn't really seem all that worthwhile, unless you create recovery points to ensure that you have records to recover with; otherwise, what's the point...?<p>(Of course, I could be entirely misunderstanding the premise of the law because it's not referenced in the article <i>and</i> I can't speak/read Russian for feck-all...)