National intranet

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A national intranet is an Internet Protocol-based walled garden network maintained by a nation state as a national substitute for the global Internet, with the aim of controlling and monitoring the communications of its inhabitants, as well as restricting their access to outside media. [1] Other names have been used, such as the use of the term halal internet in Iran.

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Such networks generally come with access to state-controlled media and national alternatives to foreign-run Internet services: search engines, web-based email, and so forth. [2]

List of countries with national intranets

Myanmar

Myanmar before 2011, while it was ruled by a military junta, used to have a separate intranet for domestic use called Myanmar Wide Web. [3]

Cuba

Cuba has its own state-controlled intranet called national web. [4] [5] [6] [7]

North Korea

North Korea's Kwangmyong network, dating back to 2000, is the best-known of this type of network. Cuba and Myanmar also use a similar network system that is separated from the rest of the Internet. [8] The network uses domain names under the .kp top-level domain that are not accessible from the global Internet. [9] As of 2016 the network uses IPv4 addresses reserved for private networks in the 10.0.0.0/8 range. [9]

Russia

In 2020 Russia tested internal internet known as RuNet (Internet in the Russian Federation). [10]

China

China does not maintain a national intranet. [11] Instead, it relies on selective blocking of foreign internet content, a system termed the Great Firewall, [11] [12] [13] combined with censorship of content posted from within its borders, [11] [14] such as by blocking lists of "sensitive" keywords. [15]

Iran

The National Information Network of Iran works like the Great Firewall of China. [16] [17] [18] In April 2011, a senior Iranian official, Ali Agha-Mohammadi announced government plans to launch its own "halal Internet", which would conform to Islamic values and provide "appropriate" services. [19] Creating such a network, similar to the North Korean example, would prevent unwanted information from outside Iran getting into the closed system. [8] The Iranian walled garden would have its own localized email service and search engine. [20]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Great Firewall of China". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  2. ↑ "Putin brings China's Great Firewall to Russia in cybersecurity pact". the Guardian. 2016-11-29. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  3. ↑ Deibert, Ronald; Palfrey, John; Rohozinski, Rafal; Zittrain, Jonathan (2008-01-25). Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-29072-2.
  4. ↑ Scola, Nancy. "Wait, Cuba has its own Internet?". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  5. ↑ "Cuba - The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  6. ↑ "More Cubans have local intranet, mobile phones". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  7. ↑ Harrison Jacobs (Sep 6, 2018). "Is there internet in Cuba?". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  8. 1 2 Christopher Rhoads and Farnaz Fassihi (May 28, 2011). "Iran Vows to Unplug Internet". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  9. 1 2 Mäkeläinen, Mika (14 May 2016). "Yle Pohjois-Koreassa: Kurkista suljetun maan omaan tietoverkkoon" [Yle in North Korea: Peek into the Network of the Closed Country] (in Finnish). Yle . Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  11. 1 2 3 Denyer, Simon (2016-05-23). "China's scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  12. ↑ Dave Allen (19 July 2019). "Analysis by Oracle Internet Intelligence Highlights China's Unique Approach to Connecting to the Global Internet". Oracle. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020.
  13. ↑ Siegel, Rachel. "Search result not found: China bans Wikipedia in all languages". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  14. ↑ "How China's Internet Police Control Speech on the Internet". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  15. ↑ "How China's social media users created a new language to beat censorship on COVID-19". www.amnesty.org. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  16. ↑ "Iran To Work With China To Create National Internet System". www.rferl.org. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  17. ↑ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Freedom on the Net 2018 - Iran". Refworld. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  18. ↑ "What You Need to Know about Internet Censorship in Iran". Centre for International Governance Innovation. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  19. ↑ "Iran clamps down on Internet use", Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian, 5 January 2012
  20. ↑ Ryan Paul (April 10, 2012). "Iran moving ahead with plans for national intranet". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
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