While I understand the sentiment and frustration, a few corrections and comments: 1. This is not radical new law, but has been in place for a year; it's only n

While I understand the sentiment and frustration, a few corrections and comments: 1. This is not radical new law, but has been in place for a year; it's only now that Roskomnadzor has elected to address this particular VPN service. This doesn't change the shock of server seizure, but it also has been clear that this was a long time coming, or should have been for the VPN provider. 2. In regards to the comment on the US, I'm sure they'll pay attention, but not in the way you're thinking. Remember, even though the US has no blanket policy for ISPs and other service providers, they do frequently issue warrants for the data already stored by ISPs and service providers. [1,2,3] Compliance for these usually isn't an option, nor do many businesses have the resources to fight the government successfully. 3. Even before government snoop acts and projects, ISPs and companies based in the US (and outside) have been willingly handing over customer data as a matter of business. Government snooping likely won't "kill tech", rather, it will kill very specific privacy oriented tech. This is indeed bad, and I am not sure how to ensure that my plainness of statement does not understate the severity, but provisions such as what Russia and the EU have will not be the deathknell for technology in the United States, or even across the globe, any more than what the US has already done with it's snooping and spying. In short, if tech can still pull money after the NSA revelations, it's likely able to survive more foreign regulations. [1] https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Privacy:_Stored_Communications_Act https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Privacy:_Stored_Communications... [2] http://digitaldueprocess.org/index.cfm?objectid=37940370-2551-11DF-8E02000C296BA163 http://digitaldueprocess.org/index.cfm?objectid=37940370-255... [3] http://www.cnet.com/news/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/ http://www.cnet.com/news/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-...