Flibusta blocked for "451 degrees Fahrenheit"

    “Have you ever read books that you burn?”
    He laughed.
    - It is punishable by law.

    On Friday night, a week after the decision was made , the Flibust library was blocked in Russia for malicious distribution of the book “451 degrees Fahrenheit” and several other works of Ray Bradbury. Interestingly, the reason for the blockage was the old Soviet translation, which is freely available in the Moshkov library "with the support of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications."

    There is no doubt that any excuse was suitable for blocking the library. Not for nothing that they fought for so many years. But the choice of the performer turned out to be significant, creating an accurate and unambiguous evidence of our time. Obviously the case when the subconscious drove a hand.

    Almost exactly two years ago, free libraries participated in a protest, trying to stop the "laws against the Internet." The action was held under the unique emblem:

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    Pessimists already painted the darkest future, but no one could have thought that the prediction would come true so literally.

    You can recall how long we were assured that network blocking would only be used against child pornography, which couldn’t get through the Internet otherwise. Then they were persuaded with the same fervor that only the expansion of copyright would finally enable ingenious authors to feed their children and continue their work. It's time to think about what they want to sell us today?

    Russian publishers now have a big problem - their current products cannot be compared and cannot compete with modern classics, with literature published in the Soviet period. There is only one way out - the classics must be removed. This danger has already been discussed.. Unfortunately, all fears were confirmed; we are observing a targeted and systematic attack. Bradbury and Remarque, Sheckley and the Strugatsky, Lem and Granin ... the copywriters already consider their everything that we read decades before they were born.

    One by one, they crush the works of the past. On the principle of “what if it’s a ride”. Sometimes it doesn’t roll . But most often there is no one to object, and another familiar literary constellation from childhood disappears, swallowed by a monopolist. If the stars go out, then someone needs it.

    As for Flibusta, it is theoretically possible, probably, to somehow protest the lock, try to resist. But is it worth it? A 451 ° block indicates that the library did everything right. It can be considered as an order, as the highest recognition and honor. There is hardly a need to discuss ways to get around a professional audience.

    When libraries are closed, this is only the last problem of the libraries themselves. And not libraries to solve it.

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