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Read the threads...very interesting and entertaining--TTS


54 posted on 01/30/2005 6:12:54 PM PST by TapTheSource
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To: TapTheSource; blackminorcapullets

Yes, more censorship is likely on the way in the Russian Federation. The self-censorship by the site owners in question is in anticipation of government censorship, and that's probably why it has such an appearance of officiousness. Here's some information from another site.

http://www.brama.com/survey/messages/37988.html
Excerpt:
"The argument of the governor of Moscow has been supported by deputy head of federal agency for press and mass communications (Rospechat, former Ministry of Press) Andrei Romanchenko. During his Wednesday's speech at the conference entitled "Information security of Russia in global information age," he proposed to create a unified system of the so-called 'content filtering' in Russia."
[...]
"One of the creators of the project 'Stikhi.Ru' Dmitry Kravchuk comments: 'Lately, we"ve been hearing about the importance of regulating the Internet from states' authorities and politicians alike. We simply wanted to forestall the situation in order to avoid running into problems in future. Clearly, we will be unable to scan and filter the entire content momentarily. That is why the decision has been reached to take action first before the government does.and form a model within our site for now.'"

"Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Anna Ossipova)"

"Pravda.Ru"


110 posted on 01/30/2005 9:31:07 PM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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