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Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans

Posted by Unknown on from the sarah-palin-to-liberate-russian-people dept.

decora writes "If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking the entire site has crashed. It is not a crash, but a protest of the Russian State Duma's Bill 89417-6 According to Ria Novosti, the bill is 'proposing a unified digital blacklist of all websites containing pornography, drug ads and promoting suicide or extremist ideas.' Russian Wikipedia's main page has been replaced with a redacted logo and a protest text, part of which says 'The Wikipedia community protests against censorship, dangerous to free knowledge, open to all mankind. We ask you to support us in opposing this bill.' (translation by Google Translate)"

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  1. Bot Nets by zippo01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder is this bill would also shut down all the Russian Bot nets. You now how many porn offers I get a day from Russia/Asia.

  2. Not Just English Speakers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Verbing nouns is something English speakers have been doing for a very long time.

    It's not just "English speakers". Americans have been "verbing nouns" for a long time, too.

    1. Re:Not Just English Speakers. by Datamonstar · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, we've been known to pork pork or buffalo Buffalo buffalo from time to time.

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  3. I just got up from sleep by torsmo · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and all I saw: "If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking". May I be blessed.

  4. Re:Good luck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Russian Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now

    Exactly. They are creating a nyet-net.