Russia plans to create its own "Wikipedia" to ensure its citizens have access to more "detailed and reliable" information about their country, the presidential library said on Friday.[1][2][3][4]
Referring to the internet as a "secret CIA project", Putin has now decided to make his own wikipedia, and begin placing more restrictions on the internet.
"Analysis of this resource showed that it is not capable of providing information about the region and life of the country in a detailed or sufficient way," the state news agency RIA quoted a statement from the presidential library as saying.
"The creation of an alternative Wikipedia has begun." It was not known whether the project might affect Russians' access to the existing Wikipedia in any way.
Russia has also begun restricting access to websites without court orders and continues to filter what it's people can have access to even more stringently than it did before, for instance requiring bloggers to register with the government and provide personal information to them.
Another attempt to alienate the Russians from the rest of the world, isolate the information they receive, and thus control their viewpoints! If only the CIA thought of it first... err, I mean, yes, the CIA thought of it first *le cough*
Edited by Manoka, 17 November 2014 - 06:05 AM.
