You'd think that's some kind of manifest destiny, but where I live the telco (VZ) has already stated that the fiber rollout is over with. They population density doesn't warrant the investment of the equipment needed to extend the fiber.

The rest of us still do local caching proxies and QoS hackery to make the most of our 2-3 Mbps.

Usually memedot editors simply post the first paragraph of the original article as the summary, at least time they call out that it's a quote.

Luckily, we have the internet and the sharing economy so smart peoples like Nimbus can show the rest of us step-by-step how to pick the locks on our shiny electronic shackles.

or "Space Fox"

And piloted by a young rebel, with a cranky old sidekick as a navigator. They should make this into a TV show.

See, extraordinary rendition is COOL, just like of teevee!
And the IMF are always the GOOD guys, so it's OK.

Your two statements do not support each other.

Because new, and shiny, and Hong Kong, and Slashdot.

You're not missing anything if you don't see GoT. It's just tits and swords.

I don't know, thousands of small companies run forums online for customer interaction and customer support purposes. If this law is written in a bad way, BAM, suddenly no Russians will ever be allowed to create accounts on those forums, and no small company is going to go rent a server in Russia and dedicate engineer time to tying the two together so that Russians can register and login to a forum in Russia, but yet still see a single view of all the public posts and threads that exist on the "internal Russian" site and the external general site.

Literally, this means that forum owners need to put a little line on their registration page saying "sorry, no Russians allowed". And despite that, there's the possibility that the companies would suddenly be liable and in violation of Russian law for existing/prior users, and any users who sign up anyways, and any Russian users who sign up while obscuring their identity or origin (and what, are you a small company really going to put in filters on source IP addresses and hope that covers you, etc etc etc).

I understand the intent of the law, but I bet they write it loosely enough that they shoot tends of thousands of companies the world over in the foot.