Russian Duma adopts 'web blacklist' bill despite SOPA-style censorship outcry

July 11, 2012 13:22

Russia's lower house of parliament has passed the bill in its third and final reading, despite criticism of censorship from the country's most popular websites.

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EqualOpportunity (unregistered) 21.07.2012 16:15

Russia has not censored.

Equ al Opportunity, EO.

Or, call the contract for one hundred percent [100%] transparency, the "fair market."

Also , the search engines [GOOGLE] and other powerful driving forces of the internet must be in an equal contract for the fair market in our democratic global paradigm to function as is the so-called design.

There is not a more sensible way to have international contract law work for all parties, than the parties all demand the filing of the "money," which enjoys such an almighty secret hand at this time.


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russki 15.07.2012 14:00

The very same fat bureaucrats created loopholes for children to be exploited, now we have to believe they are trying to protect children .... It's becoming absolutely clear - it's a worldwide engineered scheme to take our freedoms away and roll in a worldwide dictatorship of corporations with their freaking disgusting NWO. 

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Common sense (unregistered) 15.07.2012 09:38

First after thousands of years  they have to work out a common sense
Then they should at first  forbid the production -  in second ban  mind killing stuff - promote  peaceful things and support the strength  of  over all  accepted laws including the subjective points of view..
Without excluding the specialized believe  of what ever .

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9ke9 (unregistered) 15.07.2012 08:12

"Let me be very clear about this!Russian copied the strategy from Stephen Conroy, Communicati ons Minister of Australia"

wh at's that Trolling for fame lol?

you have wierd version of history ?

listen to this song.-


Ther e's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from
Just to get on level ground
Shake your seasick legs around
Dead of winter in a logo town
Signs of life are soft and flickering
Need a bed to lay my body down
Deadweight to carry down
Some static is lulling me to sleep
Hang your clothes on a chain link fence
In a junkyard say Amen
Your mouth is full of wordless hymns
And run-on sentences

And they're helpless and forgetting in the background holding nothing
And they're youthless and pretending with their bare hands holding nothing

T here's a million horses dragging down a monolith
With these trademarks so bereaved
Tied my leg to a barricade
With a plastic hand grenade
They tried to turn emotion into noise
Need a teleprompter for my life
Need a pipeline to the night
My body can't get no relief
And this life it goes by fast
You're treading water in the past
Trying to re-animate something that you can't understand

And they're helpless and forgetting in the background saying nothing
And he's youthless and forgetting with his bare hands touching nothing

A nd he's helpless and forgetting in the background saying nothing
And he's youthless and pretending with his bare hands holding nothing
 

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Bob (unregistered) 15.07.2012 04:18

For a couple of years an “Internet Filtering Scheme” has been proposed by the Labor government Minister Stephen Conroy in Australia to stop the transmission of pornographic messages reputedly harmful to children. Because I have suspected that such a scheme would be only the thin end of the wedge leading to a political censorship, I have written to Stephen Conroy and other government members asking what evidence exists in the form of case studies to show documented harm done to children over the past twenty years or so because of the uncensored Internet. I have not been able to get any response and can only assume there is no evidence. The conclusion is clear.

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Marc1 (unregistered) 15.07.2012 02:11

Whoever may say that the Zionists, paedophiles, homosexuals, pro-western subversives and promoters of various forms of human degeneracy are friends of the Russian people needs their heads and/or their agendas examined.  Any laws that may shield a society from degeneracy, perversion, subversion and Western-style disinformation should be most welcome by the moral majority.  For instance; only the very sick minds would regard promotion of paedophilia, homosexuality, suicide, drug use, idiocy and social divisions as "information" - decent people can do without that sort of "information".

Also, Wikipedia is by far the least reliable source of information - in fact, much of it is an intentional disinformation. 

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theory (unregistered) 14.07.2012 20:15

    Stoudemire (unregistered) wrote in #1

    Are you kidding me ? This is going to be even worse now, as the world is preparing WWIII to arrived, everything is blackout and the future is unfold in a shadow world living in Caves. If we don't turn this around, more country will following their foot step deeper and eventually, the cyber-world will becoming nothing more then a Ghost World barrage by these disgusting psychopathy, that will bring the apocalypse.

S toudemire

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hey dude, relax your WWIII muscles, it's not going to happen. i'm not a prophet but i think US and Russia have some degree of common sense.

when Putin or Medavdev say they are preparing for WWIII, then you can renew the "Global War" theory. in the meantime, you may want to visit a doctor

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wesley (unregistered) 14.07.2012 18:05

In the house (unregistered) wrote in #11
I support this. People with impressionable minds should be protected from depravity and violence. That is your opinion and I don't agree with it so, if I was sitting in the Russia gov't, you would be censored right now.

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9ke9 (unregistered) 14.07.2012 17:40

Can I propose a Law to balance this law?

to the new Media and information minister:
As per effective E-democracy standards:
All contributing comments and feedback mechanisms on varying sites of "news and information" (or any you decide) should not be unduly or discriminatingly edited or censored, to that degree logs should be taken as to why and when a comment is censored, who censored it and IP,  and upon audit (if audited) that information be submitted to a Third party non government organization. - with appropriate fines or etc on the motive side.

let s call it the:

"Pro tection of the Childrens future" Act.

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9ke9 (unregistered) 14.07.2012 17:29

@Aryan

Not really the point Aryan , the world understands that the rest is so very bad, it was designed to control , the single direction system was literally designed to control information, so if we compare that to "new media" (IP Principal) of course it looks stupid, and its not even the fact that this sort of Law can be effective, (because it can't be, it can't even work).

I think where it hurts the Russian Federation is:

1. With political confidence, it looks and appears (to outsider or perhaps a casual observer) that the ones that are meant to "represent" are as grievously out of touch, (as out of touch as in that aforementioned backward system.)

2. Security - (did people think i was joking about that, or trying to sound cool?) ....In an "IP principal system" the only effective way that the "old system" (essentially just corporations and big "gov" departments) can try to "combat" free flowing information is to "ring fence" it and to distract away and to try to "replace" information -

Good examples are to a lesser degree , Wikileaks, Annon, etc, and Zeitgiest etc etc.

Lets say for example RT its self, look at the organization it has many contributors , what is the effect to balance all of these things?

Well let me give you a hint , when i go to a site i can tell if the comments and feedback are controlled or not, (to a degree).

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jonny appleseed (unregistered) 14.07.2012 17:15

I am an American and I come to RT to get my news. Russia may not be perfect, but RT puts out news where CNN and Fox News, put out meaningless fluff stories like "Today is the birthday of Mickey Mouse." or a story that has an obvious agenda with little fact to back it up. They condemn the occupy movement, instead of covering it as a news event. Thank You RT.

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Aryan (unregistered) 14.07.2012 15:02

If Russian government wanted to shut up the voice of silent majority,and to undermine the right to free speech,then RT would be the first place to close down.Russian media today is without equal,when it comes to freedom of speech.Can anybody name me another country with this much freedom? 

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UhOh (unregistered) 14.07.2012 14:48

Great posts as usual, Count Cash. The communication from the Duma is nothing like the US Congress. The Duma actually responds with changes to try and ease fears of critics. Detailed language has already been added to this bill.

The language was absent. Critics complained. Language was added. Critics seemed to think the new langugae was in the right direction. When does this EVER happen in the US, ever? The US politicians just do whatever big business or AIPAC wants and the citzens are just along for the ride.

The Western leaders delight in taunting its citizens over the citizenry's complete lack of control over the process. Most Western Internet law are either about silencing criticism of government or protecting big business with extreme copyright laws.

There is no comparison between Russia's Duma and that snake-infested pit of the US Congress. Much of the grumbling in these comments is either from anarchists who want no government at all or RT and anti-Russian trolls desperately trying to smear one of the best online sources of information, and a key window into the true self of Russia.

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In the house (unregistered) 14.07.2012 14:22

I support this. People with impressionable minds should be protected from depravity and violence.

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