TY - JOUR AU - Sivetc, Liudmila PY - 2021/04/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Controlling free expression “by infrastructure” in the Russian Internet: The consequences of RuNet sovereignization JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 26 IS - 5 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v26i5.11698 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11698 SP - AB - <p>Russia has been coaxing foreign Internet companies into building the Yarovaya-Law infrastructure, by listing them as “information disseminators”. This infrastructure, aimed at storing content data collected by information disseminators, might develop into a state-controlled content layer for the sovereign Russian Internet, presenting a new digital lock to curb free expression. However, by the summer of 2020, the building of the Yarovaya-Law infrastructure had faltered due to cost and implementation obstacles; this may now have hindered the continuation of the RuNet sovereignization strategy.</p> ER -