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)"
Re:"shutters"? (Score:5, Insightful)
Verbing nouns is something English speakers have been doing for a very long time.
Re:No more coffee ads (Score:5, Insightful)
what is extreme?
Along with "obscene," everything that the government doesn't like.
hmmm (Score:4, Insightful)
Add child to pornography, replace ads with sales, and promoting suicide with cyberbullying, and things sound eerily similar to what US lawmakers keep trying to push.
Re:Good luck (Score:5, Insightful)
What's with the snarks? What's so funny?
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html [blogspot.com]
http://w2.eff.org/Activism/russian_coup_netuse.article [eff.org]
Looking at the above, and then looking at this "discussion", I have one word for all of you: regression.