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Related: About this forumCritics see red over Russia's internet blacklist
http://www.euronews.com/ Russia has begun blacklisting websites it considers a threat to children. A new law that was passed by parliament in the summer has come into force.
The government said it is to protect youngsters from child pornography, drugs and incitement to commit suicide. Critics claim it is the first step to making Russia's media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, an internet censor.
The head of the agency, Alexander Zharov, said: "We can react adequately and effectively without blocking major resources. There was talk that we would block YouTube and the like. We won't. We'll work selectively."
At the time the law was being drawn up, the Russian Wikipedia site protested by suspending its operations for 24 hours and the search engine Yandex printed the statement "Everything will be found" on its front page, but with the word "Everything" crossed out.
The head of the Movement for Human Rights, Lev Ponomaryov expressed his concerns: "This is a legal guarantee of the repressive regime in fact. If you look at what it is aimed at: the law is directed against the opposition and journalists."
The law also allows the blocking of sites judged to be 'extremist' by the authorities and that has raised fears among opponents of President Putin, many of whom believe the internet is Russia's only free forum for debate.
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Critics see red over Russia's internet blacklist (Original Post)
Lars77
Nov 2012
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)1. I have about 90%
of .ru blocked on my servers simply because of spam and known attack sites. If they would filter their own attack and disruption output, then maybe their point wouldn't sound so hypocritical to me.
Lars77
(3,032 posts)2. So you are holding pro democracy forces responsible for spam?
no, no... I'm not holding anyone anything. Funny.
These are blocked just because these IPs were sending out spam and attacking my servers at one time or another. If it happens, I stop it. My 90% was probably overstated, it seems like 90%. I am not blocking .ru because it's .ru, it's just how it's come out. The China IP block list is much larger.