Hi there,
two months after the "smoking cannabis" controversy, the Russian
Wikipedia is in trouble again, this time over an anti-piracy legislation
that will come into force on August 1 and which might result in
Wikipedia as a whole -- not just a few articles -- being blacklisted in
the country.
The Russian parliament introduced anti-drug and anti-child pornography
legislation last year, and it's already successfully used to censor
encyclopaedic articles, so I guess it's time for more radical steps now;
the new law might lead to banning websites that just /link/ to sites
which hold content copyrighted by others.
RIA Novosti has more information on the subject:
<http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130709/182150416/Russian-Wikipedia-Faces-Ban-Due-to-Anti-Piracy-Law--Director.html>
I'm CC-ing the advocacy advisors mailing list because this lies within
their area of expertise; when responding to this e-mail, please make
sure to include both lists.
-- Tomasz
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