yesterday, which is the lower house of the Federal Assembly. If it gets the necessary stamps of approval, then all online services like Facebook, Gmail, Skype, OneDrive, and Office 365 will be forced to find a way to store local data in the country. And in case the associated companies fail to comply, access to these services will be restricted. Luckily, they will have until September 2016 to do so, meaning Microsoft and friends have plenty of time to build local datacenters within Mother Russia. However, this is still a big inconvenience for technology companies around the world, and that is without even talking about the costs involved. Technology giants like Microsoft, Google and Facebook will manage, but there is every possibility that some smaller companies might opt to cease operations in the country instead. That, or the Russian government might ban and block these sites on their own.]]>
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To me, it’s amazing the kind of anti-government people the US gets from time to time. I do think they can be too involved in some instances, but it’s nowhere near as bad as China or Russia. Dumb move by Russia though, so it’ll hurt them the most.
What’s in the water over there? First China and now Russia? Someone please explain to me this nationalistic pride being more important than giving their citizens the best chance in every area.
This is a dumb move by Russia, but it never surprises me when they go crazy. Is this part of the Snowden effect?
Great news, this is! Screw Russia and China both. It’s funny because this will make it harder for the FSK or FSB (Russian intelligence, if you can call anything over there intelligent) to do their dirty work. Kind of like cutting off your nose despite your face. Hah! Dumb bastards…