Print China has blocked access to the “Wikipedia”, as it became known on Tuesday, December 8th. Previously, the restriction of access to global free encyclopedia concerned only Chinese version of the portal, but now it is completely blocked.
This step from the PRC had expected. The fact is that recently, “Wikipedia” has moved to a secure protocol, HTTPS, and therefore greatly complicated filtering articles “great Chinese a firewall” – a system of online censorship imposed by the authorities.
Earlier, the co-founder “Wikipedia” Jimmy Wales, speaking at the summit Leadership Energy Summit Asia 2015 in September this year, said that, in connection with the transition to the HTTPS protocol, China will no longer be able to monitor individual resource page, and the authorities will have to make a choice – either to use “Wikipedia” in the full volume, or do not use at all.
The first lock the Chinese government’s most popular online encyclopedia was held in June 2004, during the protests in Tiananmen Square. Site was not available for 19 days. This was followed by blockage in September 2004 and October 2005. Over the next few years, the ban was lifted for certain items on the resource.
Recently, the threat of blocking “Wikipedia” hung over Russia. Information about the fact that all Russian-language version can be locked, there was August 21 of this year. The text was published in the official accounts of Roskomnadzor in social networks:
“The decision came Roskomnadzor Chernojarsky District Court of Astrakhan region on 06/25/2015 banning the spread on the territory of Russia information on how to prepare narcotic-containing substances, placed on the page Russian version of the Internet resource “Wikipedia”. “
Representatives of the encyclopedia said in response that the article about the drug hemp” charas “is based on open and publicly available materials, particularly taken from the reports of the United Nations. In addition, the function of the portal is to inform and educate people on the planet, which means to hide information from them can not.
Later, users have met and changed the text of the article so as to comply with the law. On this basis, the regulator was replaced temper justice with mercy:
“Information held by a court banned, revised. 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 legislation.
This court decision in this reference is excluded from the Unified Register of prohibited information. ”
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