No freedom of speech in Russia. Sad. The Russian censoring agency is a joke, at one point they blocked themselves from the Russian censored internet.
Russia with be stifling freedom of speech, internet access and access to VPN's even more starting November 1st, 2017. Tens of thousands of sites around the world already blocked in Russia by the FSB.
"The authorities started actively regulating the Internet back in 2012. After the mass protest rallies on Bolotnaya square and Sakharova avenue in Moscow, the law introducing black lists of web sites has been approved upon the following pretext: ?the children must be protected from information that harms their health and development?."
"The recently approved law banning anonymizers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is not only a measure to ensure compliance with an earlier law blocking blacklisted web sites, but also another step towards Internet censoring."
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However, the commencement of the law has immediately revealed its flaws. Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia and its comic counterpart Lurkmore have been blacklisted by Roskomnadzor for drug abuse propaganda, while the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation has banned the web site of EVE-online for the term ?drug? frequently used on the game forum as a slang word. The watchdog authority has found instigation to suicide on the web site of the Vvedensky (Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple) Parish of the Rostov-on-Don Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and in the psychological report ?Suicide. How to prevent self-killing? posted on a student web site. Access to Google and YouTube had been closed for a short time as well.
If required, this law could be used to ban some Soviet cartoons, classic paintings and sculptures, etc.
The poor equipment capability of Internet providers responsible for the blocking and lack of technical knowledge among Roskomnadzor officers have resulted in further problems. For example, web sites banned in Russia became unavailable in adjacent CIS countries serviced by major Russian providers, including Beeline and Rostelecom. Instead of one web site, dozens of innocent Internet resources having the same IP address were often blocked. Or instead of one page, the entire web portals were banned. This is exactly what has happened with The CrimeRussia: our web site was blacklisted after a complaint brought by Abdula Dzhamalkhanov, ex-Investigator of the Main Investigations Directorate for the City of Moscow of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICR), against an article stating that he had gunned down a person in a Moscow restaurant. Interestingly, this news is still available on Life.ru, Zona.media, and Moskovsky Komsomolets (it can be found using the on-site search, although the article has been removed).
The poor performance of Roskomnadzor is not surprising ? once the agency has blocked itself (the Moscow City Court ruled to block domain karaoke-besplatno.ru, and officers of the watchdog authority mistakenly entered their own IP address into the register). Too bad, it was not blocked forever...
