[Wikimedia-l] Russian internet censorship

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There was an attempt to curtail access to Wikipedia in School N22 in Orel
in October - an assistant prosecutor put some Russian swear words into a
search engine on one of the schools' computers and - o dear! - discovered
that the Russian Wikipedia has an article about swear words citing them.

The provider got a demand to block access to the page. But AFAIK this is as
far as this particular story went; Wikipedia is too high profile to start a
war with it.

There is a Russian saying: "However strict Russia's laws may be, their full
power is reduced due to a lack of regular enforcement."
Victoria


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:43:25 -0600, Samuel Klein wrote:
>
>> Russia seems to be experimenting with Internet blacklist and whitelist
>> programs.  Is ru:wp likely to be affected by this?
>>
>>
>> http://globalvoicesonline.org/**2013/02/03/russian-internet-**
>> censorship-imitates-satire/<http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/03/russian-internet-censorship-imitates-satire/>
>>
>>
>> https://www.accessnow.org/**blog/2013/02/08/russia-**
>> blacklists-site-hosting-blogs-**of-prominent-journalists<https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/02/08/russia-blacklists-site-hosting-blogs-of-prominent-journalists>
>>
>>
>> SJ
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>
> To my understanding, this is unpredictable. The laws in the form they
> passed the parliament make, in principle, some content in Wikipedia and on
> Commons illegal. On the other hand, the laws are not reasonable, and will
> be implemented occasionally. Whether Wikipedia is going to be affected is
> probably determined by whether some zealous investigator will decide to
> pursue the case. So far, they first warned websites and then blacklisted
> them if no reaction was forthcoming, but this practice can change anytime.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
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