Week 16 :Story 32- Putin brings China's Great Firewall to Russia in cybersecurity pact

Putin brings China's Great Firewall to Russia in cybersecurity pact

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/putin-china-internet-great-firewall-russia-cybersecurity-pact

This article talks about how China have always had a firewall which stops the people of their nation from accessing certain material online. This is seen to protect them but also blind them from what is going on around the world. Russia have also made it clear that they're not going to follow in the footsteps of China by putting up a firewall.

• The Russians apparently see no other option than to invite Chinese heavyweights into the heart of its IT strategy. “China remains our only serious ‘ally’, including in the IT sector,” said a source in the Russian information technology industry, adding that despite hopes that Russian manufacturers would fill the void created by sanctions “we are in fact actively switching to Chinese”

I believe that this is a  good thing because people need to access the internet for certain reasons and its wrong for the government to restrict the knowledge that people have. People won't be aware of what is going on and will be alienated.