Posted on 03/15/2014 2:15:33 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Russia's government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing unauthorized protests and enforcing house arrest regulations. Today, the country's ISPs have received orders to block a list of major news sites and system administrators have been instructed to take the servers providing the content offline.
The banned sites include the online newspaper Grani, Garry Kasparov's opposition information site kasparov.ru, the livejournal of popular anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny, and even the web pages of Ekho Moskvy, a radio station which is majority owned by the state-run Gazprom, and whose independent editor was ousted last month and replaced with a more government-friendly director.
The list of newly prohibited sites was published earlier today by Russia's Prosecutor General, which announced that the news sites had been "entered into the single register of banned information" after "calls for participation in unauthorized rallies." Navalny's livejournal was apparently added to the register in response to the conditions of his current house arrest, which include a personal prohibition on accessing the Internet.
Russia enacted its first law permitting official government censorship of the Internet in 2012, when it was claimed its register would primarily be used to combat child pornography, drug use, and material promoting suicide.
Mig Greengard, assistant to Mr. Kasparov, reported that Kasparov.ru's administrators had been contacted by government officials via letter, requesting that they shut down their servers directly. Though it may not be reachable from some Russian ISPs, Kasparov's website is currently still up, as is Navalny's blog and Ekho Moskvy. Grani's site, at present, shows a single message stating the news site is "blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General."
I prefer to call it the NSE. [NeoSoviet Empire®]
Don't think for a moment that when the "Committee for State Security" [Комитет государственной безопасности] changed its name that it changed its stripes, nor that it didn't [and doesn't] have disrupters on FR.
Dezinformatsia never died. It is alive and well.
I mean if you look at a EULA for Kaspersky products they will say it is ruled by laws of the “Russian Federation.” Kind of gives a different spin on it... many of us would have viewed it as quaint, as a near 3rd world country trying to get back on its feet, and been sympathetic.
But Russia did not take its historic chastening wisely. Instead it bided its time and dreamed of new cruel exploits. Not enough for it to be an economic power. It has to be the playground bully again.
Here we have the Horse's ... ummm ... mouth ... himself, to explain why this is actually a very good, freedom promoting move on Pooty-Poot's part.
Whatever Vladi says it is.
Well lots more fun than swallowing media lies whole.
This totally sucks and Putin loses a lot of international credibility with this move.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in full force in free republic.
Get thee behind me satan.
so cnn will not be blocked.........
Those of us with functioning memories and knowledge of history know how fluid your "anti Fascism" really is. The Nazis were "brother socialists" right up until June 22, 1941. If it turns out to be convenient, they will be once more.
In the meantime, when you Russkie swine show up to post your gay Putin porn and Disinformatzia on FR, expect to be exposed for the tools you are.
Your post is way too stupid to respond to.
If you don’t want to be exposed as a Putin tool, don’t post stupid, Putin-ass-kissing posts in the first place.
The Russian people and their leader are far wiser and more moral than any creepy thing going on in the “west”.
Try blowing away the fog of ignorance that dumbed down US education has infected you with.
Right. Because silencing and murdering your political opposition is so much more moral than letting some faggots get “married.”
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