The title does not match the article:<p>> The law will create an independent infrastructure for the Russian internet, or "Runet," which will essentially <i>allow</i> Russia to pull up its virtual drawbridges in case of attack.
I suppose this will make a world much easier place for everyone. Both the US and Russia will get a clear enemy, they will keep trying to fight for years, dozen of years, without any achievable success, because any fail you can easily transform in temporary lost in a long run game. If I were the US president or EU, I'd definitely helped them for build this a new internet iron curtains, because it will definitely limit their progress and stuck a new mallow of "replace everything from the west". It's a just basic economy theory of Adam Smith: bigger taxes, bigger obstacles for intonational trade, hurt in the first time your own economy. So I'm definitely support this, lets make russia weak!
As someone who knows very little about the Internet backbone and networking in general, would this even be technically feasible to do?<p>We know that in certain countries there exist "single points" where a majority of internet traffic flows [0], but if those points get cut off, couldn't you reroute the traffic? Isn't that the point of decentralization in the first place?<p>And if it's technically feasible, would encryption tools like VPNs, DNS encryption or even Tor help in a situation like this?<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2014/03/05/why-ashburn-va-is-the-center-of-the-internet/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8593ae25a99c" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2014...</a>