@benroyce they did this a few years ago too, probably war gaming that at a point the rest of the world will have had enough of their bullshit on the internet to just cut them off entirely. How many elections do you let them fuck with before enough is enough? How much money laundering, spam, scams, sock puppet FUD has to come out of there before the world drops the banhammer? https://www.vice.com/en/article/russia-is-preparing-to-cut-itself-off-from-the-global-internet/