Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Roskomnadzor deleted “Wikipedia” from the register of banned sites – RBC

The article “Wikipedia”, which on the eve of Roskomnadzor introduced in the register of prohibited information deleted from this list, the ministry said.

«The decision Chernojarsky Court of Astrakhan region in relation to the online encyclopedia” Wikipedia “fulfilled. Information recognized by the court prohibited, edited. Article on Narcotic Drugs “charas” contained at the moment in “Wikipedia”, according to the expert opinion of Federal Drug Control Service of Russia, does not violate the requirements of the law “, – the report says.

Earlier on Tuesday morning to unblock said in his Twitter executive director of the “Wikimedia RU” Stanislav Kozlovsky (engaged in the support of “Wikipedia” in Russian).

«suddenly received a notice of Roskomnadzor, the article” Charas “Wikipedia excluded from the register of banned sites” – wrote he. Kozlowski also attach an official notification of the decision.

The discontent caused Roskomnadzor article entitled “Charas”. The regulator has demanded to remove the article, since it contains information on how to prepare drugs. According to the decision Chernojarsky District Court of the Astrakhan region, this page has been entered in the register maintained by Roskomnadzor. As explained the representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky, it happened August 18th.

Since last week, Roskomnadzor warned that recognized the illegal blocking of articles on narcotic substances technically will block the entire site. “Wikipedia” refused to remove the article.

On Tuesday, the Russian Internet users in different regions of Russia reported no access to the online encyclopedia. In the “Wikipedia” warned that the resource is not available to most users in Russia.

Because of the technical features of the work online library – a resource is functioning on the basis of the protocol HTTPS – a consequence of blocking one page would be a complete blockage the entire site.

As of the evening of 24 August, representatives of telecom operators “Rostelecom” and MTS stated RBC that has not yet received any orders from Roskomnadzor.

The founder of the non-profit project “Roskomsvoboda” monitoryaschego lock in RuNet, Artem Kozlyuk RBC said that since the declaration of Roskomnadzor and evening in the registry information was forbidden pages of “Wikimedia RU”, and still he does not see the pages of the online library among prohibited. Kozlyuk assumed that the technical service has not yet made the appropriate entry in the registry.

Kozlowski still has not answered the call of RBC.

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