New KGB Takes Internet by SORM
Country Watch: Russia
5/2/2000; 5:50:22 PM Feb. 6, 2000: More demonstration that a government can certainly take a good shot at regulating the Internet: New KGB Takes Internet by SORM. The regulation requires all ISPs to install a little "black box" rerouting device, and to build a high-speed communications line, which would hot-wire the provider -- and necessarily, all Internet users -- to FSB headquarters.

Somehow, it does not seem entirely impossible that the US will at least try something like this sooner or later...