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Panelist warns 'Max' app could entrench Kremlin information controls; urges U.S. to bolster internet-freedom tools
Summary
An unidentified panelist warned that Russia's "Max" app could enable a Chinese-style "lock net," urging the U.S. to support circumvention and privacy tools and invest in shutdown-mitigation technologies to preserve Russians' access to the global Internet.
Speaker 1, a panelist, warned that Russia's new "Max" app could accelerate a centralized model of information control and urged the U.S. to invest in tools that preserve Russian citizens' access to the global Internet.
"I think Max really does represent a significant evolution in the Kremlin's approach to information controls," Speaker 1 said, arguing that the greater risk is "the aggressive model of Internet control that the implementation of Max predicts." They said the Kremlin could use a single app to "leverage back end control to far more effectively censor and surveil their citizens," which would…
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