Who says only the Americans want to limit free speech on the Internet?
Anatoly Levenchuk, who fears the Russian government has plans to monitor all Internet traffic in the country, is fighting back. On his own site, the Web-savvy Muscovite has published details of what he says is a new Russian secret police project known as SORM — system for ensuring investigative activity. Levenchuk calls it the Russian Internet wiretap project. “I’m afraid that this is (a) return back to Big Brother,” he told CNN. His Web site — mostly in Russian but with a separate section written in English — also includes an image of a bear, Russia’s national symbol, dressed as the Statue of Liberty. As Levenchuk explains it, SORM would compel all Internet service providers (ISPs) in Russia to construct a dedicated link to the government’s FSB security agency, formerly the KGB. This theoretically would enable the police to monitor the Internet activity of each and every individual in Russia. The FSB won’t comment on the project. But at its academy, where would-be spies learn their
