Russia is moving one-step closer to creating its own "great firewall," a complex system of blocks and filters that would lock the country's Internet inside a wall of censorship.
An influential Russian <http://dailydot.com/tags/russia> Internet industry group yesterday proposed a “two-level filtration of the Internet” that will include blacklists—already in heavy use in Russia—and real-time content analysis that will block any website based on the whether or not the content is against the law, multiple Russia media outlets report <http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1358296>. Russia’s League for Internet Safety, the powerful Moscow group behind the 2012 law that first established wide Internet blacklists in Russia, has put their full weight behind the new proposal and has offered to run the system themselves. The league was founded in 2011 by four major Russian telecommunications companies including Rostelecom, a state-owned firm. It also includes members like the head of Web portal Mail.ru and Igor Shchyogolev, Russia's communications and press minister. The league's entire purpose is to expand its policing of "negative content" in the future. More: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/russia-two-level-filtration-censors/http://www.dailydot.com/politics/russia-two-level-filtration-censors/ <http://www.dailydot.com/politics/russia-two-level-filtration-censors/>
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