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Originally Posted by SideshowBob
The US doesn't have the ability to do that
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US controls a big part of the Internet infrastructure. It's not only about things like DNS, many Russian sites use the US infrastructure, for example Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure, DO, etc. Government wants to understand the dependence and be prepared to a moment when all these will be cut.
About the motives of US, I don't know, but Russia already cut from a part of the bank infrastructure, and the Government created a protection from cutting the rest of it (that is cut of SWIFT).
After banks, Internet is a natural next thing. Moreover, one region (Crimea) is already cut from all US companies including Google, Apple, Microsoft.
For protecting from cyber-attacks, important objects should not be connected to the Internet at all, for example, the Army has it own internet and mobile network. It's more reliable and wise approach than self-cutting everybody from the Internet :-)