> I am not sure why. Thesis: a lot of conservative America have a bit of a thing for the iron wall. Pitching it thus, as if Russia were to build its own "Grea

> I am not sure why. Thesis: a lot of conservative America have a bit of a thing for the iron wall. Pitching it thus, as if Russia were to build its own "Great Wall of China", or perhaps putting them in the "North Korea Internet, LOL!" category, probably catches eyeballs. Although it has to be said that there are other supposedly more free western nations that have done similar dodgy things with their Internet, and didn't quite get the hard treatment in media-at-scale, but rather more of a velvet glove... Yes, 5-eyes nation citizens, you might ought want to take a closer look at the Anglo plans for the Internet, they're not quite savoury ..