From Digital Control to Physical Repression: Searches, Prison, Exile, and War
Journal: The MIT Press eBooks
Year: 2025

During the 2010s, the forms of political control over the Russian internet were varied, distributed, and indirect (black boxes, ISPs, algorithms, data management, copyright rules, etc.).They relied essentially on regulating and channeling digital be hav ior rather than on physical vio lence.As authoritarian coercion gradually increased, these forms of control turned into direct attacks on the safety of people and digital goods by the state apparatus.Criminal prosecutions for online publications,