Russia’s solution to its VPN crackdown breaking the internet? A state-owned VPN
- Russia's media regulator has proposed a "state VPN" for IT specialists
- Roskomnadzor seeks to restore access to developer platforms inadvertently blocked by its own VPN crackdown
- Industry experts worry the tool could enable state surveillance and create a "privileged tier" of internet users
In a deeply ironic twist, Russia's federal media regulator, Roskomnadzor, is planning to create a unified “state VPN” to help the country's IT specialists bypass its own aggressive internet restrictions. The proposal aims to solve a problem of the government's own making: its war on censorship-circumvention tools is now preventing developers from accessing essential foreign coding resources.
The plan was unveiled at a meeting on June 8 between Roskomnadzor's deputy head, Oleg Terlyakov, and several IT companies. As first reported by the independent Russian news outlet The Bell, the meeting was called after a wave of complaints from developers who found themselves cut off from vital...
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