Russia calls for online censorship
p2pnet.net news:- Russia’s deputy prosecutor general wants Big Brother reinstated, this time to censor freedom of speech online.
A “legal control over the Internet” is necessary, “to step efforts to fight with extremism,” says Ivan Sydoruk, according to Kommersant.
Human rights activities say state control over the Net, “will create persecuted ‘cyberdissidents” and IT specialists argue online censorship is next to impossible, says the story.
But, “The Internet is often a place for circulating extremist leaning information,” Sydoruk told a police conference in Rostov-on-Don yesterday, declaring, “We need to work out an effective system to control the data released there in line with lawsays Kommersant.”
In another recent statement calling for strict control over the Net, federal security service director Nikolay Partushev said, “There are currently 5,000 web-site run by extremist organizations and movements,” the story states, adding:
“State Duma Legislature Committee Chairman Pavel Krasheninnikov came up with a bill last year to sentence Internet extremists to five years in prison. The amendments, however, were not adopted.”
Also See:
Kommersant – Security Officials Mull over Censorship on the Net, June 22, 2007
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:23 am
Looks like Russia is reverting back to the “good ol’ days”.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:58 am
Thank goodness.
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:14 am
Just some excesses on the part of order-loving “old guard”. Don’t take that seriously.
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Vladimir Vladimirovich not to be taken seriously? He is, if it could be put this way, the spiritual heir of Joseph Vissarionovich, and this World knows how seriously Vissarionovich took goings-on in Russia.
Besides, Vladimirovich is a Chekist. Born in 1952, but a Chekist nonetheless.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
which is fake anyway. Who is going in USSR direction is USA, no Russia.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
While Yeltsin and his gang was stealing, USA was praising him for “reforms”. It’s no surprise that Vladimir Putin has so strong support and the opposition, who is mostly affiliated with Yeltsin’s gang, has no support. Khakamada, Nemtsov, Chubais and the like will not be forgiven.
In the beginning of the 90’s, when everything of Russian origin was placed in the mud and many in Russia were praising America. “Patriotism” was a swear word. But those days are now over, a healthy anti-Americanism is back, and the new swear word is “democracy” and “democrats” who stole away the country’s resources.
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 am
and Berezovsky and his gang are spreading FUD about Russia.
Nevzlin, Berezovsky and Gusinsky are wanted by Interpol.