Putin calls the Internet a "CIA project" and warns Russians against making Google searches!

[Informer]

Moscow (AFP) - April 24, 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a "CIA project" and warned Russians against making Google searches.

Putin assured a group of young journalists that 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. And it keeps on developing," Putin said in televised comments.

Responding to questions from a young pro-Kremlin blogger, Putin warned that information entered on Google "all goes through servers that are in the States, everything is monitored there".

He also made ominous comments on Russia's most popular search engine Yandex, suggesting it could become more tightly controlled.

Yandex is "partly registered abroad and not just for tax reasons, but for other reasons too", Putin said, mentioning it is partly owned by international investors and reiterating his fear of foreign control of the Internet.

When Yandex was starting out, Putin said, they were "pressured" to have "that many Americans and this many Europeans among the executives".

"We must fight determinedly for our own interests. This process is happening. And we will support it from the government side, of course," he said without explaining what he means in detail.

Yandex handles some 60 percent of search queries in Russia and has a presence in several other countries. It allows users to search blogs and rates the most popular entries.

Yandex's shares fell over 4.3 percent on the NASDAQ after Putin's comments.

The company said in a statement quoted by news agencies that registration abroad is not done to dodge taxes but due to issues of corporate law, while foreign investment is a common feature of any Internet startup.

"Since our main business is in Russia, we pay almost all taxes in Russia," Yandex said.

While the Internet remains the main sphere for political discussion, Russia has recently cracked down on debate, with a new law allowing the government to block blacklisted sites without a court order.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny had his popular blog blocked and a widely read news site that covered opposition causes sacked its long-term editor and changed its stance after a warning on extremism from the state watchdog.

Russia this week passed in its initial stage new legislation that would force popular bloggers to register their sites and comply with similar regulations as mass media.

The 61-year-old president has frequently been scathing about the Internet, which he once described as "half pornography", unlike Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who posts snaps on Twitter.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted this month that the president is a regular Internet user and even sometimes laughs at jokey Photoshopped images.

 

[ugali dagaa]

thanks for info but you should have pasted the link instead

 

[Informer]

thanks for info but you should have pasted the link instead

Next time soma habari vema mkuu.

Source imetajwa mwanzoni mwa habari. Ni AFP!

 

[Umuhirindahu]

so whats your deduction?

 

[Kichuguu]

I dream of the cold war stories!

Great men said if you cannot beat them then join them. I guess Putin knows that Google, as is for many IT companies in US, was developed mostly by immigrants from the eastern european bloc, which used to be controlled by Moscow. Why did they do it in San Fransisco and not in Moscow is what Putin should be thinking of instead of pointing fingers. Most IT companies in US were developed by immigrants from India, China or Eastern Europe: unfortunately not from Africa! at least for now.

 

[kadoda11]

I dream of the cold war stories!

Great men said if you cannot beat them then join them. I guess Putin knows that Google, as is for many IT companies in US, was developed mostly by immigrants from the eastern european bloc, which used to be controlled by Moscow. Why did they do it in San Fransisco and not in Moscow is what Putin should be thinking of instead of pointing fingers. Most IT companies in US were developed by immigrants from India, China or Eastern Europe: unfortunately not from Africa! at least for now.

mkuu,
you've forgetten to conclude, that with all the positive effort made by migrants in the science/IT sector,at the end of the day CIA snatch it from them and keep it for herself.and it can even change the motive or objectives of the inveted program.
refer to the speculations sorounding the invention of facebook and the involvement of CIA (Criminals in Action).

nadhani ni sera nzuri.njooni USA,muishi kwa raha zenu,muvumbue "makorokocho" ya kila iana ,ila mwisho wa siku chochote mnachovumbua CIA lazima itie mikono yake/iweke watu wake kusimamia.

 

[Kichuguu]

mkuu,
you've forgetten to conclude, that with all the positive effort made by migrants in the science/IT sector,at the end of the day CIA snatched it from them and keep it for herself.and it can even change the motive or objectives of the inveted program.
refer to the speculations sorounding the invention of facebook and the involvement of CIA (Criminals in Action).

nadhani ni sera nzuri.njooni USA,muishi kwa raha zenu,muvumbue "makorokocho" ya kila iana ,ila mwisho wa siku chochote mnachovumbua CIA lazima itie mikono yake/iweke watu wake kusimamia.

Hapana, siyo kuwa wana"snatch".; serikali ya Marekani huwapa hela za kufanya utafiti na ugunduzi na inaweka wazi kabisa kuwa ugunduzi wako ni open kwa watu wote.

 

[kadoda11]

Hapana, siyo kuwa wana"snatch".; serikali ya Marekani huwapa hela za kufanya utafiti na ugunduzi na inaweka wazi kabisa kuwa ugunduzi wako ni open kwa watu wote.

basi kama ni hivyo,putin asilalamike.

 

[ugali dagaa]

Next time soma habari vema mkuu.

Source imetajwa mwanzoni mwa habari. Ni AFP!

nimeiona afp imetajwa lakini, si ni rahisi kwa yoyote kutunga chochote kisha akaandika reuters au shirika lolote la habari? sasa kama mimi nataka kweli niamini ni afp wameandika ntajuaje ndio maana wakristo wote huenda na biblia kanisani Russia’s Putin calls the Internet a ‘CIA project’ - The Washington Post

 

[badiebey]

Wow!..

 

[Bavaria]

Cia cia cia cia

 

[Swahilian]

nimeiona afp imetajwa lakini, si ni rahisi kwa yoyote kutunga chochote kisha akaandika reuters au shirika lolote la habari? sasa kama mimi nataka kweli niamini ni afp wameandika ntajuaje ndio maana wakristo wote huenda na biblia kanisani Russia’s Putin calls the Internet a ‘CIA project’ - The Washington Post

Umesema vyema.! Maana miaka hii wadukuzi na wadokozi ni wengi..!
#Informer

 

[ibrah sung]

so mr putn he dont want to see the russian to use the googl search engn for what mean?

 

[Milale]

so mr putn he dont want to see the russian to use the googl search engn for what mean?

mambo ya ptn

 

[Milale]

kazi kwako

 

[golota]

hii hatari sasa

 

[josaya]

i sense smell of cold war

 

[strong ruler]

Huyu dikteta putin hana njaro

 

[mweusiii]

I dream of the cold war stories!

Great men said if you cannot beat them then join them. I guess Putin knows that Google, as is for many IT companies in US, was developed mostly by immigrants from the eastern european bloc, which used to be controlled by Moscow. Why did they do it in San Fransisco and not in Moscow is what Putin should be thinking of instead of pointing fingers. Most IT companies in US were developed by immigrants from India, China or Eastern Europe: unfortunately not from Africa! at least for now.

ukiwaita "immigrants" unakuwa umeficha their true identity...in fact they r jews, waliomigrate frm europe kutokana na kushamili kwa antisemitism miaka ile ya NAZI germany na baada ya WW2, hawa ndio wanaocontrol media, finance,banking sector hadi porn industry...na ndo ambao walioplot kuua black american movement ya enzi zile, mauaji ya watu kama malcom X, martin luther king na black activists wengi na kwa maana hiyo kuensure black racial inferiority
uchafu walioufanya duniani ni mwengi na tukiandika hapa tutakesha...hawa ndo wanaoform kile kinachoitwa invisible government inayo contain organs kama NATO,CIA,USIA(us information agency) , kwa kutumia vyombo mashirika mbali mbali ikiwemo google..wamekuwa waki traffic taarifa dunian hata mda mwingine wamekuwa wana trak calls from nchi wanazoamini ni maadui wao...putin yupo sawa , cha kufanya ni kutafuta mbadala wa US(jewish) medias n engines kama google thats y wameestablish yandex

 

[mweusiii]

US jewish medias kama google huwa wanamanipulate habari in their favour...kwa mfano huwapaka matope wana mapinduz wa russia(bolsheviks) kuwaita madikteta, kwa mfano jaribu kusearch jina la stalin, matokeo watakayo kupa ni yale yanayomtaja kwamba alikuwa ni dicteta wa urusi, lakini je ni kweli alikuwa dicteta? wakati yeye na chama chake(bolshevik) ndio waliowakomboa warusi kwenye utawala wa kimonarchy wa Czar na kuleta socialist reform iliyokataza unyonyaji wa mtu na mtu..kwa hiyo wanawachafua national heroes na ndo maana putin lazima aongelee hili swala....