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Sensational scandal with the departure of Google in China, the endless debates about the "problem" of draft laws regulating Internet-based communication in European countries, strengthening the monitoring of online activity in Russia, attempts to change the notorious law of Ukraine "On protection of public morals" - all the links of one chain. IT Business week will try to analyze what threatens to limit free speech on the Internet to the state, business, society."Enemies Network"March 12 international human rights organizations held a World Day to combat cyber-censorship. Reporters Without Borders, according to tradition, presented a status report with the restriction of freedom of speech on the web. This year, the "Internet enemies" were listed as Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam. It should be noted that the goals and objectives of these countries vary greatly. Thus, rogue states (North Korea, Burma, Cuba) tend to eliminate use of (and, of course, the development of) the Internet. Reporters Without Borders noted similar intentions and Turkmenistan - for a population approaching 5.5 million people access the Internet in this country has only 127 thousand users. A number of countries (Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia) do not limit the spread of Internet communications, but a system of total monitoring (and a consequence of punitive measures to dissenters) led to the fact that a significant portion of Internet users turned to the regime of self-censorship. The vast majority of other countries in a sober assessment of the surrounding reality and realize that the rejection of the internet technology will throw the economy back decades. Therefore, combating objectionable System online activity takes place on other fronts. First of all, takes over the system of content filtering. It is no secret that in many totalitarian countries access to the resources of the opposition (and often - and to the reputable international news agencies) is blocked at the level of providers. However, it is not open. IT Business week invites the reader to pay attention to what is happening in developed countries that call themselves democratic. In addition to the very obvious list of "Internet enemies," Reporters Without Borders provided a list of countries that are "under observation". This year it included, among others, Russia, Turkey, South Korea and Australia .... The latter is of greatest interest because it is almost a textbook model of a modern democratic state. Legislative surrealism15 December 2009 the Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy (Stephen Conroy) confirmed that the government is planning to vote for the draft filtering "incorrect" content. Making a decision about each particular site in the "black list" will not take the court, and state structure ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority). Furthermore, ACMA will be empowered to create a "black list" of their own, in accordance with the internal rules of classification of content not available to any individual users or owners of Internet resources. Detours learned that a prohibited content will be charged not only sites with extremist content sites that violate copyright law, and child pornography, and "embarrassing" sites about, for example, issues of Aboriginal health consequences of anorexia nervosa or debate the bill on legalization of soft drugs. Despite the unanimous opposition of society (96% of respondents were strongly opposed to innovation), "trimming" the Australian Internet began even before the formal adoption of the law. The cynicism of the situation is compounded by the fact that the contents of the "black list" of sites is a state secret, and to prohibited acts applies even placing a hyperlink to a disagreeable ACMA resource. For example, a popular forum Whirpool has been sued for $ 11000/den for all time to find a hyperlink to one of the blocked resources. Agree, this is a very elegant system - does not yield hellerovskoy "Catch 22". You should not assume that the example of Australia can be attributed to isolated and exceptional. On the contrary, it vividly illustrates the state trend of recent years - tighter control of online activity. The Study Group Open Net Initiative (ONI) has revealed the facts filtering Internet content in 25 countries out of 41. It must be emphasized that the explosive growth of state control over the network structures has occurred in recent years. According to John Palfrey (John Palfrey) from Harvard Law School, for five years, the number of practicing traffic filtering, increased from 2 to 25. ONI experts draw attention to three main motive underlying the public Internet Control: The Politics of the authorities / security forces, security threats and the norms of public morality. At the same time, an employee of the University of Cambridge and CEO The SecDev Group Rohozinski Rafal (Rafal Rohozinski) notes that fascinated filtering of Internet content, governments tend to begin to expand the "sphere of influence" of censorship, spreading its influence on all new web sites . European upbringingIt would be naive to believe that European countries will be tempted to control the activities of their nationals in the vast web. Information on new legislative initiatives comes almost every day - so at the time of delivery rooms became aware of the fact that the Irish government raised the issue of global implementation of Internet filters to block pornographic resources, file-sharing systems, etc. The experts from the nonprofit organization Digital Rights Ireland argued that the innovation will affect the national telecom operators, and direct traffic filtering, apparently, will Vodafone. Nearby UK actively using the methods of regulating networks in practice: controlled by the state structure of Internet Watch Foundation has consistently seeks out resources that are potentially dangerous to British visitors. Attempts to dilute the Internet reach the ridiculous: one of these days customers ISP Demon Internet said that they could not access the site Wayback Machine (the online store backup copies of sites, beginning in 1996). A periodic efforts to block Wikipedia (what a politically incorrect album cover Scorpions, then a story about catching the maniac) reduce the already low popularity of British guardians of morality. On-line policy of Germany seems a little more appropriate: in spite of an abundance of rhetoric from the government (including the Prime Minister Angela Merkel), the really serious constraints exist only for neo-Nazi resources. Providers wishing to obtain a license, sign an agreement on "voluntary self-control for multimedia service providers, requiring them to filter web sites which have a negative impact on young people. Of course, blocking the subject and resources to child pornography - in May last year, Ursula von der Lane (Ursula von der Leyen), Minister of Family Affairs of Germany, initiated the formation of a committee responsible for blocking access to Internet resources. The result of the committee should be to create a "blacklist" of sites that distribute child pornography - and the blocking of these sites providers. The most stringent policies in relation to freedom of speech in network France. According to Spiegel, the lower house of the French Parliament approved a bill tentatively called Lopssi-2, allowing the state virtually unchecked control the net. Apparently, it will be approved on second reading and will come into force no later than this summer. French President Nicolas Sarkozy - perhaps the most radical European head of state - is an apologist for the most stringent control of Internet communications. Recall that in 2009 it was he who held a life project HADOPI (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet), which put an end to a quiet life of users (including those who do not have anything to do with illegal activities) . The current draft also suggests that the French security services can install Trojan software on the remote computer to monitor Internet activity. Despite the negative reaction from the public organizations in the Fifth Republic there is relative calm among the political establishment. Only the representative of the Green Party Sandrine Underwear (Sandrine Bellier) believes that Lopssi-2 is a "serious threat" to freedom of speech on the Web: "Filters and blocking in the network become a standard weapon in the arsenal of law, which, without shame violates the personal freedoms of citizens" . Last ChineseThe last straw that prompted attention to issues of freedom of speech on the Web, has become a scandal unleashed by Google in China. In general, the history of Chinese online censorship has more than one hundred pages of shameful. "China's great firewall» (the informal name of the project "Golden Shield", which is a server system filters between the Chinese service providers and international channels of communication) is constantly increasing its functionality to securely protect Chinese people from the pernicious influence of the West. It should be noted that several years ago, three major players of the Internet market - Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft - have signed an agreement to censor the Chinese version of its resources in accordance with local regulations. I must say, the company faithfully fulfill their obligations - just remember which was subjected to severe criticism in 2006, CEO Yahoo! Jerry Yang (born in Taiwan), when the company issued a Chinese secret service correspondence of dissidents, which led to their arrest. Recall, the conflict erupted on Jan. 12, 2010, when a Google vice president David Drummond (David Drummond), who heads the legal department of the company (Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer) reported that the mailboxes Chinese human rights activists and opposition movements were examined intelligence agencies. As a result, it was decided to revise the company's policy to limit freedom of speech in the Chinese segment of the web. March 22 Google stopped censoring the results of search systems google.cn and set up automatic redirection to google.com.hk - Hong Kong server, do not fall under the jurisdiction of the laws on censorship. Sergey Brin in an interview with New York Times said that "history is not over" and suggested that the Chinese users to access the server gonkogskomu Google. Of course, China has blocked the extradition of unwanted regime, so that the question of free access to search engines is still open. Hope for its favorable resolution of a very unreal - with all due respect to Google, Chinese IT-market will not notice the "loss of a fighter," because most of the market belongs to a local Internet giant Baidu. Google will benefit from such a demarche, time will tell. The only thing that is clear now - this is the firmness of the position of the totalitarian system, which can not (and is unlikely to) shake even the world's largest Internet company. CIS: RING NarrowsDespite the fact that in most CIS countries, relating to Internet censorship rather democratic, experts point out the negative trends that have come in the last year or two. Mainly this is due to plans tougher laws on the control of Internet communications. As in Western countries, responsible for online crime will impose not only the administrators of prohibited content, but also for providers and business owners (for example, online media), and the end users.ArmeniaAccording to the human rights organization, today in Armenia there is no censorship of online space. Most likely this is due to a relatively low penetration level web infrastructure and technical shortcomings. Geham Vardanyan, the editor of news portal social organization InterNews notes that "in Armenia there is no control or censorship in the Internet space. The only case of restraint of liberty has been since March 2008. " Recall after the presidential election-2008, organized opposition riots in the capital - and the authorities decided to restrict access to a number of news resources. AzerbaijanAbout a year ago, Azerbaijan was among countries who have control of the Internet space and blocking of resources, inadequate treatment. In late 2009, this finding confirmed the Media Rights Institute (IPM). Leila Matadli representative IPM in Baku stated that the situation with freedom of speech in the country "remains poor, and Azerbaijan is inferior to many countries on this indicator. Belarushacker community Cryptohippie submitted a report based on information from 17 sources, dealing with issues of freedom of speech on the web. In the report «The Electronic Police State» deduced ranking of countries, the most tightly controlled online space. First place was shared by North Korea and China, and behind them there are Russia and Belarus. In this case, the drafters of the report note that the open statistics in Belarus is not there - and this country is no different from the same North Korea. In Belarus itself in no hurry to protest against the title of "Internet police state": thus, Oleg Proleskovsky, director of the Information Analytical Center at the President's Administration proposed to introduce a system of filters Internet content: "In terms of institutional arrangements need to think about the so-called content filtering. That is a software tool that allows users or administrators of local networks would block access to the computers under their control to Web sites that provide information in conflict with applicable law or contrary to public morality "- shared his ideas with the magazine, Oleg Belarusan Thought. Special mention should be the responsibility system, proposed by the authorities: "At the legislative level should be strengthened responsibility for disseminating information on the Internet wrongful. If at some site had such information, the responsibility for it should carry an administrator, owner of the resource and a provider. " In light of such statements is not surprising that in Belarus, a special interagency republican working group studying the experience of network monitoring, especially Chinese. KazakhstanThis is a situation critical to freedom of speech and express their views on the web. Movement Kaznet-Freedom has recently published a list of resources to which access is denied to users in Kazakhstan. It came not only to opposition websites (eurasia.org.ru, kahar.biz, etc.), but also resources such as livejournal.com, blogger.com, blogspot.com, wordpress.com, as well as distance education website ... Moscow State University. Mikhail Lomonosov. It should be noted that Kazakhstan was one of the first CIS start filtering of online content - even in 1999 at the request of the reasons for unavailability of the site "Eurasia" representative of the service provider's support Nursat responded that "there will be technical reasons for access to the "Eurasia" impossible. " He also mentioned that these reasons apply to all providers of Kazakhstan. Of course, the politics of total control is provided legislative support. April 30, 2009 was approved the bill on measures to regulate the Web. Among other things, the law equates blogs and chats to the media, control of which goes to the General Prosecutor of Kazakhstan. It was also noted that foreign media can be blocked in the case of a "threat to national security." And on June 13, 2009 President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the amendments that equate to the media any internet resource, not limited to blogs. From now on, any site can be closed by court order, if the content contained on it would be illegal. KyrgyzstanOn 10 March 2010 in Kyrgyzstan were blocked by several local and foreign news portals covering the events in the country - among them was, and Kirghiz site of Radio Liberty. Shortly thereafter, 130 non-governmental organizations, have formed a coalition "For Democracy and Civil Society, announced the utmost concern," a coordinated attack by the authorities to free speech and right to information ". Development of the situation with freedom of speech in the country, obviously, will show very soon. Sensational scandal with the departure of Google in China, the endless debates about the "problem" of draft laws regulating Internet-based communication in European countries, strengthening the monitoring of online activity in Russia, attempts to change the notorious law of Ukraine "On protection of public morals" - all the links of one chain. IT Business week will try to analyze what threatens to limit free speech on the Internet to the state, business, society. "Enemies Network"March 12 international human rights organizations held a World Day to combat cyber-censorship. Reporters Without Borders, according to tradition, presented a status report with the restriction of freedom of speech on the web. This year, the "Internet enemies" were listed as Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam. It should be noted that the goals and objectives of these countries vary greatly. Thus, rogue states (North Korea, Burma, Cuba) tend to eliminate use of (and, of course, the development of) the Internet. Reporters Without Borders noted similar intentions and Turkmenistan - for a population approaching 5.5 million people access the Internet in this country has only 127 thousand users. A number of countries (Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia) do not limit the spread of Internet communications, but a system of total monitoring (and a consequence of punitive measures to dissenters) led to the fact that a significant portion of Internet users turned to the regime of self-censorship.The vast majority of other countries in a sober assessment of the surrounding reality and realize that the rejection of the internet technology will throw the economy back decades. Therefore, combating objectionable System online activity takes place on other fronts. First of all, takes over the system of content filtering. It is no secret that in many totalitarian countries access to the resources of the opposition (and often - and to the reputable international news agencies) is blocked at the level of providers. However, it is not open. IT Business week invites the reader to pay attention to what is happening in developed countries that call themselves democratic. In addition to the very obvious list of "Internet enemies," Reporters Without Borders provided a list of countries that are "under observation". This year it included, among others, Russia, Turkey, South Korea and Australia .... The latter is of greatest interest because it is almost a textbook model of a modern democratic state.Legislative surrealism 15 December 2009 the Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy (Stephen Conroy) confirmed that the government is planning to vote for the draft filtering "incorrect" content. Making a decision about each particular site in the "black list" will not take the court, and state structure ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority). Furthermore, ACMA will be empowered to create a "black list" of their own, in accordance with the internal rules of classification of content not available to any individual users or owners of Internet resources. Detours learned that a prohibited content will be charged not only sites with extremist content sites that violate copyright law, and child pornography, and "embarrassing" sites about, for example, issues of Aboriginal health consequences of anorexia nervosa or debate the bill on legalization of soft drugs. Despite the unanimous opposition of society (96% of respondents were strongly opposed to innovation), "trimming" the Australian Internet began even before the formal adoption of the law. The cynicism of the situation is compounded by the fact that the contents of the "black list" of sites is a state secret, and to prohibited acts applies even placing a hyperlink to a disagreeable ACMA resource. For example, a popular forum Whirpool has been sued for $ 11000/den for all time to find a hyperlink to one of the blocked resources. Agree, this is a very elegant system - does not yield hellerovskoy "Catch 22". You should not assume that the example of Australia can be attributed to isolated and exceptional. On the contrary, it vividly illustrates the state trend of recent years - tighter control of online activity. The Study Group Open Net Initiative (ONI) has revealed the facts filtering Internet content in 25 countries out of 41. It must be emphasized that the explosive growth of state control over the network structures has occurred in recent years. According to John Palfrey (John Palfrey) from Harvard Law School, for five years, the number of practicing traffic filtering, increased from 2 to 25. ONI experts draw attention to three main motive underlying the public Internet Control: The Politics of the authorities / security forces, security threats and the norms of public morality. At the same time, an employee of the University of Cambridge and CEO The SecDev Group Rohozinski Rafal (Rafal Rohozinski) notes that fascinated filtering of Internet content, governments tend to begin to expand the "sphere of influence" of censorship, spreading its influence on all new web sites . European upbringingIt would be naive to believe that European countries will be tempted to control the activities of their nationals in the vast web. Information on new legislative initiatives comes almost every day - so at the time of delivery rooms became aware of the fact that the Irish government raised the issue of global implementation of Internet filters to block pornographic resources, file-sharing systems, etc. The experts from the nonprofit organization Digital Rights Ireland argued that the innovation will affect the national telecom operators, and direct traffic filtering, apparently, will Vodafone.Nearby UK actively using the methods of regulating networks in practice: controlled by the state structure of Internet Watch Foundation has consistently seeks out resources that are potentially dangerous to British visitors. Attempts to dilute the Internet reach the ridiculous: one of these days customers ISP Demon Internet said that they could not access the site Wayback Machine (the online store backup copies of sites, beginning in 1996). A periodic efforts to block Wikipedia (what a politically incorrect album cover Scorpions, then a story about catching the maniac) reduce the already low popularity of British guardians of morality. On-line policy of Germany seems a little more appropriate: in spite of an abundance of rhetoric from the government (including the Prime Minister Angela Merkel), the really serious constraints exist only for neo-Nazi resources. Providers wishing to obtain a license, sign an agreement on "voluntary self-control for multimedia service providers, requiring them to filter web sites which have a negative impact on young people. Of course, blocking the subject and resources to child pornography - in May last year, Ursula von der Lane (Ursula von der Leyen), Minister of Family Affairs of Germany, initiated the formation of a committee responsible for blocking access to Internet resources. The result of the committee should be to create a "blacklist" of sites that distribute child pornography - and the blocking of these sites providers. The most stringent policies in relation to freedom of speech in network France. According to Spiegel, the lower house of the French Parliament approved a bill tentatively called Lopssi-2, allowing the state virtually unchecked control the net. Apparently, it will be approved on second reading and will come into force no later than this summer. French President Nicolas Sarkozy - perhaps the most radical European head of state - is an apologist for the most stringent control of Internet communications. Recall that in 2009 it was he who held a life project HADOPI (High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet), which put an end to a quiet life of users (including those who do not have anything to do with illegal activities) . The current draft also suggests that the French security services can install Trojan software on the remote computer to monitor Internet activity. Despite the negative reaction from the public organizations in the Fifth Republic there is relative calm among the political establishment. Only the representative of the Green Party Sandrine Underwear (Sandrine Bellier) believes that Lopssi-2 is a "serious threat" to freedom of speech on the Web: "Filters and blocking in the network become a standard weapon in the arsenal of law, which, without shame violates the personal freedoms of citizens" . Last Chinese The last straw that prompted attention to issues of freedom of speech on the Web, has become a scandal unleashed by Google in China. In general, the history of Chinese online censorship has more than one hundred pages of shameful. "China's great firewall» (the informal name of the project "Golden Shield", which is a server system filters between the Chinese service providers and international channels of communication) is constantly increasing its functionality to securely protect Chinese people from the pernicious influence of the West. It should be noted that several years ago, three major players of the Internet market - Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft - have signed an agreement to censor the Chinese version of its resources in accordance with local regulations. I must say, the company faithfully fulfill their obligations - just remember which was subjected to severe criticism in 2006, CEO Yahoo! Jerry Yang (born in Taiwan), when the company issued a Chinese secret service correspondence of dissidents, which led to their arrest. Recall, the conflict erupted on Jan. 12, 2010, when a Google vice president David Drummond (David Drummond), who heads the legal department of the company (Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer) reported that the mailboxes Chinese human rights activists and opposition movements were examined intelligence agencies. As a result, it was decided to revise the company's policy to limit freedom of speech in the Chinese segment of the web. March 22 Google stopped censoring the results of search systems google.cn and set up automatic redirection to google.com.hk - Hong Kong server, do not fall under the jurisdiction of the laws on censorship. Sergey Brin in an interview with New York Times said that "history is not over" and suggested that the Chinese users to access the server gonkogskomu Google. Of course, China has blocked the extradition of unwanted regime, so that the question of free access to search engines is still open. Hope for its favorable resolution of a very unreal - with all due respect to Google, Chinese IT-market will not notice the "loss of a fighter," because most of the market belongs to a local Internet giant Baidu. Google will benefit from such a demarche, time will tell. The only thing that is clear now - this is the firmness of the position of the totalitarian system, which can not (and is unlikely to) shake even the world's largest Internet company. CIS: RING Narrows Despite the fact that in most CIS countries, relating to Internet censorship rather democratic, experts point out the negative trends that have come in the last year or two. Mainly this is due to plans tougher laws on the control of Internet communications. As in Western countries, responsible for online crime will impose not only the administrators of prohibited content, but also for providers and business owners (for example, online media), and the end users. Armenia According to the human rights organization, today in Armenia there is no censorship of online space. Most likely this is due to a relatively low penetration level web infrastructure and technical shortcomings. Geham Vardanyan, the editor of news portal social organization InterNews notes that "in Armenia there is no control or censorship in the Internet space. The only case of restraint of liberty has been since March 2008. " Recall after the presidential election-2008, organized opposition riots in the capital - and the authorities decided to restrict access to a number of news resources. <<>> Azerbaijan <<>> About a year ago, Azerbaijan was among countries who have control of the Internet space and blocking of resources, inadequate treatment. In late 2009, this finding confirmed the Media Rights Institute (IPM). Leila Matadli representative IPM in Baku stated that the situation with freedom of speech in the country "remains poor, and Azerbaijan is inferior to many countries on this indicator. <<>> Belarus <<>> hacker community Cryptohippie submitted a report based on information from 17 sources, dealing with issues of freedom of speech on the web. In the report «The Electronic Police State» deduced ranking of countries, the most tightly controlled online space. First place was shared by North Korea and China, and behind them there are Russia and Belarus. In this case, the drafters of the report note that the open statistics in Belarus is not there - and this country is no different from the same North Korea. In Belarus itself in no hurry to protest against the title of "Internet police state": thus, Oleg Proleskovsky, director of the Information Analytical Center at the President's Administration proposed to introduce a system of filters Internet content: "In terms of institutional arrangements need to think about the so-called content filtering. That is a software tool that allows users or administrators of local networks would block access to the computers under their control to Web sites that provide information in conflict with applicable law or contrary to public morality "- shared his ideas with the magazine, Oleg Belarusan Thought. Special mention should be the responsibility system, proposed by the authorities: "At the legislative level should be strengthened responsibility for disseminating information on the Internet wrongful. If at some site had such information, the responsibility for it should carry an administrator, owner of the resource and a provider. " In light of such statements is not surprising that in Belarus, a special interagency republican working group studying the experience of network monitoring, especially Chinese. <<>> Kazakhstan <<>> This is a situation critical to freedom of speech and express their views on the web. Movement Kaznet-Freedom has recently published a list of resources to which access is denied to users in Kazakhstan. It came not only to opposition websites (eurasia.org.ru, kahar.biz, etc.), but also resources such as livejournal.com, blogger.com, blogspot.com, wordpress.com, as well as distance education website ... Moscow State University. Mikhail Lomonosov. It should be noted that Kazakhstan was one of the first CIS start filtering of online content - even in 1999 at the request of the reasons for unavailability of the site "Eurasia" representative of the service provider's support Nursat responded that "there will be technical reasons for access to the "Eurasia" impossible. " He also mentioned that these reasons apply to all providers of Kazakhstan. <<>> Of course, the politics of total control is provided legislative support. April 30, 2009 was approved the bill on measures to regulate the Web. Among other things, the law equates blogs and chats to the media, control of which goes to the General Prosecutor of Kazakhstan. It was also noted that foreign media can be blocked in the case of a "threat to national security." And on June 13, 2009 President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the amendments that equate to the media any internet resource, not limited to blogs. From now on, any site can be closed by court order, if the content contained on it would be illegal. <<>> Kyrgyzstan <<>> On 10 March 2010 in Kyrgyzstan were blocked by several local and foreign news portals covering the events in the country - among them was, and Kirghiz site of Radio Liberty. Shortly thereafter, 130 non-governmental organizations, have formed a coalition "For Democracy and Civil Society, announced the utmost concern," a coordinated attack by the authorities to free speech and right to information ". Development of the situation with freedom of speech in the country, obviously, will show very soon. <<>> Moldova <<>> In general, the situation with censorship in the Moldovan Web segment is acceptable. From high-profile events, vskolyhnushih public opinion in recent years is the lack of blocking access to social network "Schoolmates" April 9, 2009 There are suggestions that the move was connected with the creation of community opposition, "Down with communists!". <<>> Tajikistan <<>> Unlike many neighboring countries, in Tajikistan, Internet censorship is introduced solely for the election period. So it was in 2006, so it remains in the current year, when the January 11 state structure Tajiktelecom, performing the government order, has blocked access to several opposition resources. However, if 4 years ago, blocking was maintained long enough, this year the restrictions were lifted the next day - a powerful information campaign that unfolded on blogs and media outlets worldwide, has forced authorities to abandon proven methods. <> Russia <<>> Perhaps it is in Russia there was more ambiguous situation with the censors the Internet space. On the one hand, the country is in the watchlist of the Reporters Without Borders », Freedom House and other human rights organizations - as a state where there is a threat of total Internet control. On the other - against the background of European, North American and Chinese realities, runet situation does not look so dramatic. After analyzing dozens of credible sources of information, IT Business week has come to the conclusion that talking about global censorship of the Russian segment would be premature. Much more correct definition would be the word "control". Obviously, the authorities soberly aware that China's experience in Russia is not applicable: considering the development of infrastructure, technical training average Internet user, and especially the mentality, the optimum would be to choose another path. Our hunch confirmed Ivan Zasursky, Head of Laboratory Media Culture and Communication Faculty of Journalism, openly declared: "Censorship on the Internet in Russia is not. Will be tougher persecution for speaking out after the fact. " <<>> However, recently the advisor to the Minister of Communications Oleg Rykov said that the Ministry of Communications of Russia received a proposal from the Ministry of Internal Affairs - to introduce legislation in the amendment that would allow authorities prapovoryadka to block access to resources, violates the laws of the Russian Federation. The attached list of resources, including about two thousand sites - pirated, pornographic and violent, mostly promoting radical Islamist ideology. It is known that a similar request was sent to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Culture. Shortly after the publication of this statement to RBC daily, referring to the information the Ministry of Communications, reported that the working group dealing with the regulation of Internet communications, has no plans to create a separate law on the control of the network. Governing law will be implemented through amendments to existing law "On information". It is reported that the changes will be made before October 2010 and responsible for the implementation of this project will be a working group of the Duma Committee on Information Policy. The authors of the amendments say that the main purpose of legislative changes - need to expand on the world web of laws in force in "Offline" - including laws on fraud and defamation. We can only guess how far the desire to go down the deputies "clean up" ?oiao. | |
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