Russia threatened to block non-complying US Internet companies

It’s not surprising that a former KGB spy wants to get their hands on data regarding anti-government bloggers, especially when that former spy is President Vladimir Putin. Ties between Moscow and Washington have been very strained over the past year or so, and Putin’s demands that American Internet companies hand over user data to the Russian government or else be blocked in the country isn’t helping. Facebook, Google, and Twitter have all been threatened by the Russian government to hand over data on certain bloggers.