Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China’s so-called Great Firewall.
The Supreme Court has issued a show-cause order in the name of the government and sought a written response from it relating to the Advertisement Act which asks the media to seek approval from the Advertisement Board before publishing advertisements.
Companies including internet giants Alibaba and Tencent were fined Wednesday by anti-monopoly regulators in a new move to tighten control over their fast-developing industries.