If you're big enough you might not have a problem in Russia.
But, BTW: How do we deal with such cases? If a country doesn't want
specific content, are this sites blocked either by Wikimedia or a Big
Firewall like in China.
Cheers
Marco
On 02/12/2013 04:11 PM, Виктория wrote:
There was an attempt to curtail access to Wikipedia in School N22 in Orel
in October - an assistant prosecutor put some Russian swear words into a
search engine on one of the schools' computers and - o dear! - discovered
that the Russian Wikipedia has an article about swear words citing them.
The provider got a demand to block access to the page. But AFAIK this is as
far as this particular story went; Wikipedia is too high profile to start a
war with it.
There is a Russian saying: "However strict Russia's laws may be, their full
power is reduced due to a lack of regular enforcement."
Victoria
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter<pute...@mccme.ru>wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:43:25 -0600, Samuel Klein wrote:
Russia seems to be experimenting with Internet blacklist and whitelist
programs. Is ru:wp likely to be affected by this?
http://globalvoicesonline.org/**2013/02/03/russian-internet-**
censorship-imitates-satire/<http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/03/russian-internet-censorship-imitates-satire/>
https://www.accessnow.org/**blog/2013/02/08/russia-**
blacklists-site-hosting-blogs-**of-prominent-journalists<https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/02/08/russia-blacklists-site-hosting-blogs-of-prominent-journalists>
SJ
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To my understanding, this is unpredictable. The laws in the form they
passed the parliament make, in principle, some content in Wikipedia and on
Commons illegal. On the other hand, the laws are not reasonable, and will
be implemented occasionally. Whether Wikipedia is going to be affected is
probably determined by whether some zealous investigator will decide to
pursue the case. So far, they first warned websites and then blacklisted
them if no reaction was forthcoming, but this practice can change anytime.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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