Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans 84
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)"
Bot Nets (Score:5, Funny)
Not Just English Speakers. (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.
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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.