Access to VPN services that do not bring their activities into compliance with Russian law could be restricted within Russia. This was stated by Roskomnadzor chief Andrey Lipov in an interview with «Ъ».
According to him, the agency is currently negotiating with such services and trying to ‘resolve disputed issues’.
Lipov also spoke about the increasing use by Roskomnadzor of traffic slowing measures against social networks. He stated that blockades should be applied only as a last resort, but companies must comply with Russian law:
“Blocking is not the answer here, so we needed to develop other tools, including economic ones, and to find a technology that would allow throttling traffic. This concerns technical counter-threat measures (TSPU).”
He noted that in 2014 the technology was ‘in its infancy’, and it had been developed all this time, and on 10 March it was applied to Twitter.
Lipov said that mobile operators’ TSPU already filters 100% of traffic.
“Daily, the equipment prevents more than 421 million access attempts. There are now twelve threat categories, including evading blockades, DDoS attacks and others,” he said.
Earlier, after Twitter, Roskomnadzor threatened throttling traffic to Google and YouTube.
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