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| Subject: Putin calls internet a 'CIA project' Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:48 pm | |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the internet a "CIA project" and has warned Russians against making Google searches.
Mr Putin on Thursday told a group of young journalists the internet was controlled from the start by the CIA and its surveillance continues today.
"That's life. That's how it's organised by Americans. You know all of this started during the dawn of the internet as a special project of the CIA," he said in televised comments.
Responding to questions from a pro-Kremlin blogger, Mr Putin warned that information entered on Google "all goes through servers that are in the States, everything is monitored there". Advertisement
He also made ominous comments on Russia's most popular search engine Yandex, suggesting it could become more tightly controlled.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/putin-calls-internet-a-cia-project-20140424-zqz6s.html |
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