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Law Repressing Social Media, Bloggers Now In Effect In Russia
An anonymous reader writes On Friday, Russia implemented a new law that significantly limits its citizens' online free speech. Under this new law, social media sites must "retain user data for at least six months...within the country's boundaries so it can be available for government inspection." Also, "bloggers with at least 3,000 daily readers must register with Roskomnadzor, the regulator that also oversees Russia's main media outlets." This, of course, means that popular bloggers will no longer be able to remain anonymous.
the Berlin Wall goes back up.
USA retains it forever, no matter what laws are in place.
Unlike the US/NSA.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
The 80's called and they want to know if you need a foreign policy.
Or it's just that those opinions which don't resemble that one those got censored already. Or they just want you to think that they censor all the other ideas. or ideas other than "they just want you to think that they censor all the other ideas" got censored. Ad nauseam.
the USSR is back
Oh wait, that's what the US is for. If it's drug or movie related anyways :P
Popular bloggers in the USA don't have to register with the government.
But it's not hard to find out who they are.
Hmm,
Edward Snowden's professed mission in life is to enable secure, anonymous internet communications.
Edward Snowden's visa in Russia has expired.
Now this.
Snowden is on thin ice, I think. Where could he possibly go from Russia, except for a dark hole in GitMo?
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Bloggers are food.
If all the Russian bloggers are just government controlled parrots, just switch to reading foreign blogs.
Also, you could have a setup where your Russian blogger has only a single reader, a foreigner who re-blogs everything they write (unless Russia doesn't take kindly to being clever like this).
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Putin's approval rating has skyrocketed, yet again.
Either these numbers are bogus or the 1% rich of Russian represent the other 99%.
As I understand it the law, your identity will be public information once you have 3000 hits in a day. In the USA, the NSA might know who all the bloggers, but keeps it private. I imagine that from now on, any blogger in Russia criticizing the government or deviating from the narrative presented by the state-owned media might face consequences.
freedom AFTER speech? not so much.
Yeah, but in the US, you CAN build a float that mocks the President. Why don't you ask Pussy Riot how great it is to say anything critical of Putin.
Sheesh, what an ignorant dipshit.
blog is writing on wall for YOU!
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Not if you're careful about it.
This link puts a little meat on the bones, though the story is still sketchy. Seems the law was aimed at 5 or 6 specific bloggers, though probably upwards of 500 could wind up being covered. ISPs not happy with it. Law purports to regulate Russian-language blogging, not limited by geography or physical placement. So a foreigner could theoretically run afoul of it if they publish in Russian (and become popular doing so) while a Russian could write anything they want without worry as long as they do it in another language?
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
i thought that band was arrested for having a shitty name.
Nah... Russians are that brainwashed.
In Soviet Russia, Putin Blogs YOU!!
Seriously, this guy is way more like Leonid Brezhnev every day, and slowly turning more into Stalin every day. Now all that's really needed is a way to circumvent Putin's Iron Gateway.
For the near-future, i.e. as of the day of the month and year that the law takes effect, bloggers will need to fragment their activities ... best to de-correlate transmissions par EM engineering. :-)
Let all this crap be an incentive to develop better method of circumvention. The mightiest will always rule the universe.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Blog reads you!
Not that it makes this kind of policy, but Russia has had authoritarian governments for 500 years. What's the US's excuse?
Russia has always been a very authoritarian state, even from well before Soviet times. But its a shame to see them going backwards like this. This ought to be the time for their freedoms to bloom, but alas.
they could just ask them for any data they want.
I wonder if this means that running Freenet is illegal in Russia now? An incalculable percentage of any given site will preside on systems in Russia, but there's no way of telling who is making a request, or if any given request belongs to any given Russian blog site. Also, with no way to count pageviews on inserted content, how do you know when you need to register with the state?
Russia; cultivate your masculinity and say bad things about America and you too can install yourself for life.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Bigot?? Ha-ha! I nailed it! You really ARE an ignorant dipshit. You really shouldn't have thrown away that Word-A-Day calendar your grandma gave you for Christmas.
Republicans do NOT "love Putin", do NOT "hate the average American" and do NOT "want us to die"
Republicans despise guys like Putin, and the vast majority were annoyed that Bush thought Putin was a reasonable guy. Just because a few Republican-leaning pundits have said "Putin is a better leader than Obama" (a statement about LEADERSHIP) that does NOT mean they support his motives, his goals or his methods - only an idiot could draw that conclusion. As for "hating average Americans" ... NOBODY can out-do Obama on that as he continues to push-down the wages and benefits of middle-class and lower-class Americans by flooding the nation with millions of illegal aliens.
You're that AC who posts in all Slashdot threads blaming Republicans for everything, aren't you? Go back to Kos or HuffPo and stew some more in that brain-pickling toxic brew.
What if I say "NO!"?
That's because Putin declared himself to be a whole new race, like an emperor (or, how do you say Übermench in Russian?), and you aren't allowed to talk down about his race. (By the way, help me out on my geography, but since he's on an annexation kick, how far from Ukraine is the Sudetenland? He's got that perfect face where you can see him sitting in a high-backed chair in front of a HUGE table, he's wearing a suit jacket with a turtleneck and no tie, an eyepatch, and he's stroking a white cat in his lap. I KNOW you can picture that!).
For the dumbest, most-ignorant, most hate-filled, most-delusional, most over-the-top asenine post in the history of Slashdot. Congrats. I'd say you "need help", but actually you are clearly beyond help. Get yourself some banners and chants and join the Phelps clan at a protest somewhere.
From RT:
http://rt.com/politics/177248-...
So.., now you're not legally allowed to lie to a large number of people or incite violence based on those lies. Gee. That's bad how? Might be nice to have something like that in the West, because right now it's perfectly legal for FOX News to outright lie to their viewers.
Russia, like any large nation the US hates, (see Venezuela) must defend against the standard CIA tactics used to de-stabilize governments and population bases through grass roots propaganda tactics. Forcing creeps and liars out of the game seems like a pretty good way to do this. You don't want to be forced out? Then follow the law and back up your claims with fact checking verification of what you are writing, don't use hate speech and don't incite violence. How hard is that?
There's a reason you're not allowed to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater, and this falls neatly beneath the same rubric.
Honestly, think of the gossips and cruel kids in school spreading lies in deliberate attempts to undermine healthy energies. Putin has the guts to whip the carpet out from under such types.
So now, once you reach 3000 readers, the Russian government says you are a news source with real pull and must start acting in a manner befitting such responsibility. Is 3000 the right magic number to have picked? I don't know, but it makes perfect sense to draw a line somewhere.
Of course, any law can be abused, but right now I don't see this as an abuse. I see it as a sensible measure as Russia is under increasing media attack by a truly psychopathic nation whose leadership is completely disconnected from objective reality, has a tail-spinning economy and seemingly bottomless war lust. Of course you have to take measures to protect your populace from that kind of sickness.
But naturally, this proactive move is being spun with wicked and/or childish glee in the West (depending on whether you are CIA or just ignorant and easily led).
This btw really sucks for Russian internet startups, because it prevents them from using AWS, GCE or other cloud services, which don't have DCs in Russia. So they start out with a disadvantage now compared to startups everywhere else in the world.
Then again, able-minded Russian startup entrepreneurs are flowing out of the country in droves anyway.
Internet is overflown with useless noise and bullshit "news". Every dipshit with a net connection and blogger page thinks they are hot shit and know what they are talking about - it's just noise.
99.9% of bloggers are click whores who are only regurgitating crap from someone else's page.
There is practically no original content. They do not investigate, research, check facts and then report. They publish their baseless BS, fantasies and pedestrian opinions as facts and then call it news.
Fuck bloggers, fuck twitter and all the rest of this retarded "media"!
Brave new world... we live in indeed.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed.
-MPatHG
What the fuck are you talking about? Democrats are the neo-Communist party.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
The government registers you.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
This is probably why he offers a bounty for anyone to break TOR.
Hammer is coming down and dumb Russians will probably love him even more when he gives them some flimsy excuse.
Do the Russians pay you with Rubles or Dollars?
I didn't know cold_fjord has kin in Russia. Small world, eh?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
"bloggers with at least 3,000 daily readers must register with Roskomnadzor, the regulator that also oversees Russia's main media outlets."
Ironically, it also means that bloggers are now treated the same as journalists - isn't that what they've wanted for years? ;-)
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
It's formulated so that corporations that offer those blogs or commentaries like in news papers are responsible (ie if theres anonymous racist comment paper has to pay atleast in theory)
and it seems people care more about russia
It’s the best tool for censorship resistant, decentral publishing - and publishing is what blogging is about.
Anonymous bloggers "must" register if they get over 5,000 readers? Yeah, I'm sure all the bloggers hosted on foreign sites will get right on that... Russia has not yet set up anything like the Great Firewall of China, so this requirement is utterly impossible to enforce.
I doubt GP is Russian. It's far more likely that he's far right or far left American. These guys have been fapping on foreign oppressive regimes for a long time now, though Russia is the first one where both are fapping on it at the same time (left, because it's anti-US; right, because it's strongly conservative).
Having a law against "lying**" when "truth" means "statements the government makes" is markedly different from when "truth" means objectively factual statements.
** I presume you are riffing here on the "slander" part of the RT snippet.
WTF are you talking about? The Democrats would have to cross over a lot of right wing territory, the great expanses of moderate, and a good bit of the socialist mountains before ending up anywhere near communism.
Just because they're not as right wing as you'd like in no way makes them communists of any stripe.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!