Balkanisation of Internet Begins with Russia enacting a Law
1st November 2019 the legal seed of Balkanisation of Internet is sowed, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The so-called "sovereign internet" law, which mandates the creation of an independent internet for Russia, thus creating an island in the cyber space. Is it for availability of Internet during the times of cyber threats or is it for exerting sovereignty at the cost of censoring the Internet remains to be seen. . It was hardly a surprise when the Iranian government also had announced in May that it has installed a cyberdefense shield and wants to construct “halal Internet”. This germ is in the heads of France and Canada too and China has the infamous great firewall doing its fencing already. Moscow has just given itself the power to erect a digital or cyber fence around its internal network. How effective is the fence and isolation only time will tell us, but the point is made and it is made legally now. President Putin signed into law, new rules that wo