WikiPedia Russian site would Shut Down as a protest
Wikipedia on Tuesday shut down its Russian-language site (ru.wikipedia.org) for 24 hours to protest a bill that would give the Russian government sweeping powers to blacklist certain sites.
Wikipedia's Russian-language site encouraged users to spread the word about the law and contact their representatives in parliament to lobby against it. The protest is somewhat similar to the shutdown of the Wiki's English-language site in January to protest the anti-pirating Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. Congress.
Per Lawmakers in Russia, the bill, is to be reviewed in parliament on Tuesday, and is designed to protect children. Critics of the rules argues that instead of protecting children these rules gives too wide a scope for the government to subjectively select which sites to blacklist. Media director of Russia Anton Nossik said in an blog that 'For the past 12 years I was sure that the Russian government was smart enough not to censor the Internet. Now they are scattering any doubt.'
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Wikipedia's Russian-language site encouraged users to spread the word about the law and contact their representatives in parliament to lobby against it. The protest is somewhat similar to the shutdown of the Wiki's English-language site in January to protest the anti-pirating Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. Congress.
Per Lawmakers in Russia, the bill, is to be reviewed in parliament on Tuesday, and is designed to protect children. Critics of the rules argues that instead of protecting children these rules gives too wide a scope for the government to subjectively select which sites to blacklist. Media director of Russia Anton Nossik said in an blog that 'For the past 12 years I was sure that the Russian government was smart enough not to censor the Internet. Now they are scattering any doubt.'
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