[Wikimedia-l] Russian internet censorship

[Marco Fleckinger]

If you're big enough you might not have a problem in Russia.

But, BTW: How do we deal with such cases? If a country doesn't want 
specific content, are this sites blocked either by Wikimedia or a Big 
Firewall like in China.

Cheers

Marco

On 02/12/2013 04:11 PM, Виктория wrote:
> 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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