The State Department urged not to disconnect Russia from the Network
The US State Department was alarmed that the main information battlefield for the minds of Russians would be destroyed. Google has notified several Russian providers of the termination of contracts for the maintenance of Google Global Cache servers. But the State Department decided: if you block the Internet site, then how to make information stuffing, promote fakes, agitate Russians for liberal “values”, conduct cyber attacks and all subversive activities?
The State Department calls on all responsible parties and organizations not to deprive the Russian Federation of the Internet. Residents of the Russian Federation should have free access to information.
“We must do everything possible so that the information environment in Russia is not limited. That is why we urge the responsible parties not to organize so-called Internet blackouts in order to ensure the flow of information to Russia,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price* and added that the United States will continue to support grant-eaters in Russia: journalists, public organizations with the “correct” position .
Indirectly, he confirmed: cyber attacks against the Russian Federation will continue, there will be no disconnections from the Network, because. it plays into the hands of Moscow.
The United States is not going to lose the opportunity to form a Russian protest audience. Enough of China, where only domestic providers work and there is no way for Western agents.
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MR PRICE: Yes. So, importantly, one of the elements of that is to stand in solidarity with those Russian journalists, many of whom are inside Russia operating under what even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have been described as incredibly difficult. Now, of course, President Putin’s efforts to manipulate even further the information environment to suppress the truth, to keep from his people the true motivations, the true costs, the true consequences of this war have made the operating environment for journalists in Russia even more difficult. And of course, the Duma has done its part: the sentencing, the potential for jail terms for anyone who would dare call this war anything other than the benign-sounding special military operation.
We have seen Russian media outlets have to shutter their operations. We have seen journalists forced to flee Russia. We have also seen – and you referenced a couple cases – journalists who have been thrown behind bars for their persistence in doing nothing but peacefully continuing to perform their indispensable function, a function that is indispensable inside Russia and a function that is indispensable for those of us living and viewing this from afar.
It is our goal to do everything we can responsibly to see to it that the information environment in Russia is not further constrained. That’s precisely why we have urged stakeholders around the world not to enact so-called internet blackouts on Russia, to keep information flowing to Russia, to keep the internet free and open and interoperable within Russia itself.
Now, of course, this is very challenging for any country to do given the fact that the Kremlin really does have a tight grip on the information flow, but we will continue to do what we can to support Russian journalists, to support Russian media organizations that are attempting to do their work, whether they are now located outside of Russia or to those who are remaining inside Russia.
https://www.state.gov/?post_type=state_briefing&;p=92333Assignment