[Chapter-delegates] Wikipedia in Russian will be closed on 10th of July

[Joly MacFie]

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http://boingboing.net/2012/07/09/russian-wikipedia-blacks-out-o.html

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Anna Karakhanyan <ann at styx.aic.net> wrote:

> Wikipedia in Russian will be closed on 10th of July because of Russian
> parliament’s debating of amendments to the law «About information» that
> could create real censorship of the internet — a blacklisting and filtering
> of internet sites.
>
> Supporters of the law’s proposition say that it is aimed only at widely
> prohibited content such as child pornography and «information like this»,
> but conditions for determining the content falls under this law will create
> a thing like the «great Chinese firewall». The existing Russian law’s
> practice shows the high possibility of the worst scenatio, in which access
> to Wikipedia soon will be closed in all country.
>
> On July 11 will be held the second reading of the law in the State Duma.
> The law will come into force after the third reading, which date isn’t set
> yet.
>
> Anna Karakhanyan
> ISOC AM
>
>
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