Posted on 05/07/2014 8:27:03 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers, Internet pioneers and political activists said Tuesday would give the government a much wider ability to track who said what online.
Mr. Putin’s action on Monday, just weeks after he disparaged the Internet as “a special C.I.A. project,” borrowed a page from the restrictive Internet playbooks of many governments around the world that have been steadily smothering online freedoms they once tolerated.
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Barry-O and Hillary are bothe taking notes.
Buckeye McFrog
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Toddsterpatriot
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We don’t have to register. The USA NSA just searches everyone and saves the info.
Can we send them our Chief of Blog Police?
LOL! "Registration in the US is Automatic."
Elwood, is that you?
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