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Witness warns Russia's emerging 'lock net' and super-app could enable near-total information control
Summary
An unidentified speaker warned that a Russian 'lock net'—a centralized RuNet-style infrastructure and a super-app called Max—could let the Kremlin censor and surveil citizens at scale, training self-censorship and reducing access to independent media over time.
An unidentified speaker warned that the Russian government is moving to implement a "lock net"—a single, state-centered digital ecosystem that could enable broad censorship and surveillance—according to the transcript.
The speaker said the Kremlin has shown "both the will and the technical capacity to implement a sophisticated model of total Internet control," citing a shift from decentralized infrastructure toward a centralized censorship regime and naming the RuNet and a super-app referenced…
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