Techdirt has been following the worsening censorship situation in Russia for some time. Back in July, the country’s parliament passed a new law ostensibly designed to “protect the children”. It took only a couple of weeks before it was used to shut down
the whole of LiveJournal for part of the country. That was apparently
because a neo-Nazi blog had been found among the thousands of others
hosted there — an indication of just how blunt this new instrument of
censorship is.
On Techdirt.
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Russia Blacklists Cultural Wiki Without Explanation, Site Just Moves To Circumvent Block
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