Valery Fadeev, Chairman of the Human Rights Council of the President of the Russian Federation, says that it is impossible to block or “stop” VPN services. This is what he’s talking about He said RBC, commenting on the possibility of additional legislative regulation of these services.
“I don’t really understand how VPN is regulated, because it quickly became clear to everyone that this is a very complex system and it is generally impossible to block or turn off VPN. If you try to disconnect everything, the entire huge Internet system may simply crash. This is obvious,” Fadeev said.
He added that now, “this matter has become clear to everyone, but it became clear to specialists a long time ago.” According to the head of the Human Rights Commission, institutions, banks, and “programmers who download codes” will suffer from the “disruption” of the VPN.
According to Fadeev, “he never said that the VPN should be closed.” At the same time, he noted that “some Russian citizens” use VPNs to read and watch information sources and TV channels blocked in the country.
“We must remember that some of these media outlets work for the enemy, and this is not an alternative source. Some of them are declared foreign agents, some are unwanted organizations. There is no alternative information, but enemy propaganda. This is not a legal issue, it is not a subject of some kind of restrictions, it is a question of civil awareness.”
He also urged Fadeev not to link the Internet shutdown with restrictions on freedom of expression, as “part of the Russian intelligentsia” does (he did not specify who he was talking about). The head of the Human Rights Council believes that restrictions on the Internet are necessary for security, because the Ukrainian armed forces are “strikeling many cities in Russia.”
He added that he did not consider the experience of countries such as Israel, which do not restrict access to the Internet for security reasons, to be relevant. “Israel has already failed in its defense against Iranian missiles,” Fadeev concluded.
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This is not the first time Fadeev has spoken about restricting VPN services. At the same time, he himself, according to him, does not use means of bypassing blocking. Two weeks ago, he said there was “something abnormal” about the use of VPNs, and that Russians using VPNs were not searching the Internet for another point of view, but rather for “what the enemy is saying.” “Medusa and Rin are not two different points of view, but the point of view of the enemy,” Fadeev said.