Putin’s grip on the internet

29 Aug 12 | Digital Freedom, Russia

Vladimir Putin says [Ru] he doesn’t use the internet very much.  But he has definitely recognised its power. The biggest protest rallies in post-Soviet Russia, against Putin and his party United Russia, were organised online. No wonder that the parliamentary and presidential elections and Putin’s inauguration were all marked by the hacking of independent media websites and LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular blogging platform, via DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. (more…)