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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.
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
freedom AFTER speech? not so much.
Russia's economy is dominated by its energy exports. It can and is largely subsisting on that income.
If you want to break Russia's economy then you need to give europe an alternative energy source.
Controversial as it may be, we should probably be advocating hydrologic fracturing in Eastern Europe. If Ukraine and Poland can ween themselves off Russian energy imports and possibly become net exporters to Germany then Russia's economic position will collapse indifferent to whether or not they censor bloggers.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
If the Soviet's constitution gave the people just one right, it gave more than the US constitution does. That is because the US constiitution does not give or grant rights. It bars government from taking away some of the rights peolle already posess.
This is a pretty important difference.