Black lists of sites are bringed to light. It is possible to prohibit sites in the Internet

In the end of July the amendments to a “law about the Information”, which the Internet department consider as an attempt to introduce censor in Russian Internet came into a force. Within several months such popular sites as Lurkmore, Rutracker and Google were included in the black list and then temporary closed due to a spreading of an illegal content. The law should be improved because some innocent sites without any prohibited information was punished.  

In June it became known about the amendments to the “about the information, informational technologies and information security” law. This information includes: child pornography, drug’s propaganda and the information stimulated childes to a suicide or injure. The League for Secure Internet that is headed by Konstantin Malafeev (a founder of the Marshall Capital told that the main aim is to create a register as a method to fight with an illegal content.

Of course nobody was doubt about the good aims of this law, but the question is about the offered blocking mechanism. The scheme is: As soon as a site, according to a point of view of the Ministry of Internal affairs, Federal Drug Control service and The Russian Federal Surveillance Service for Mass Media and Communications (Roscomnadzor) decide that this site should be included in the black list the provider is obliges to block the access to this site within a one day.

The problem is that blocking in by the domain names and IP addresses can cause closing of such resources which do not contain any prohibited information. Such huge Internet companies and rights's protectors came out with a sharp critic according to this law, which in their opinion will lead to the Internet censorship.

It is impossible to avoid a situation when the right of the innocent owners of the Internet resources, who's sites were blocked are outraged in practise, said experts of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC). So as a result such sites as unofficial encyclopedia Lurkmore, a file share Rutracker, Google services were blocked. According to data of the ROSCOMNADZOR the blacklist includes more than 3000 sites which do not contain any prohibited information and this number is equalled to 97 % of all the resources in the register.

Also the blacklist creation contradicts with a stated in the law “search, getting, sending, development and spreading of the information by all legal ways” principle states RAEC.

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The access to social networks will be blocked for Tajikistan citizens

Tajikistan authorities intend to toughen up censorship in the Internet by banning a number of popular sites and social networks. It is probably that their number will reach 131. This was reported by the Tajikistan service “ Radio Svoboda” (“The Freedom Radio”) with a reference to Assomidians Atoeva, the Head of the Internet Service Providers Association.


According to Mr. Attoev's words companies-dealers of the Internet services have already got certain lists of sites that will be blocked. Among them are Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter, mail.ru and also tjknews.tj, topvideo.tj, politicforum.ru, youtubemusic and tojnews.tj.


It is fail to get any official comments from the Tajikistan Communication Service.

On the last Friday Russian Mass Media have reported that the companies-providers in Tajikistan had been told to block the user’s access to 131 sites of social implication.

Earlier by the authority's order the Facebook activity was limited, and its blocking continued from November 26 till December 7. This step caused a sharp criticism from the USA, EU and The International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX).

Experts connects this pressure on the Mass Media in Tajikistan and straightening the censorship with the forthcoming presidential elections in Autumn, because of which the criticism in the Internet against the main persons of the country became stronger.




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