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Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own
(www.scientificamerican.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
i don't know what that was comment was about, but you can use satellite downlink to transmit data, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toosheh
it's unidirectional so it's more of an cold war era radio free europe in spirit but with modern technology in some way
Which is literally what was jokingly called "enemy voices" in USSR, the comment was about this exactly, and yes, I was thinking about the thing you linked.