Russian-language Wikipedia goes dark to protest Internet blacklist law

Herdict Blog 2012-07-10

Summary:

The Russian-language version of Wikipedia will be dark for 24 hours to protest a proposed law that would allow a government agency to blacklist websites containing pornography, drug advertisements or extremist ideas. The Duma, Russia’s parliament, is slated to review the controversial amendments to the country’s “Law on Information” for the second of three readings [...]

Link:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/herdict/2012/07/10/russian-language-wikipedia-goes-dark-to-protest-internet-blacklist-law/

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Authors:

Malavika Jagannathan

Date tagged:

07/10/2012, 17:18

Date published:

07/10/2012, 15:37