+1 blacklist in Russia

    In Russia there is an openly updated Federal list of extremist materials that are forbidden to be massively distributed and stored for the purpose of distribution - that is, in particular, it is forbidden to facilitate their getting on the Internet. For violation of the ban criminal penalties.

    In Russia there is a secretly replenished black list of sites that are forbidden to visit, because they are theoretically capable of harming children. At first, the closure of the site was the only countermeasure, but recently criminal penalties are anticipated, as I, on the night of May 6, 2013, retold from the Izvestia newspaper.

    The inclusion in each of the two lists seems somewhat arbitrary - in particular, dozens of cases of too cruel or too widespread use of repressions were mentioned on Habrahabr, when under the pretext of combating propaganda (extremist, narcotic, suicidal, pedophilic, etc.) they were not particularly affected guilty persons or even random people in general (neighbors on blog hosting, video hosting, IP address). One gets the impression that any ordinary net can be grabbed at any time and to deal with him, like a sheep from a herd. However, this was not enough. Today (May 8) , an article appeared in Izvestia : “ A register of prohibited extremist symbols is being created in Russia

    [Sheeple]

    "With a story about the intention of the Ministry of Justice to create another blacklist, this time symbols will appear that can defame the national flag, coat of arms and anthem of the Russian Federation (as well as flags, coats of arms and anthems of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipalities, foreign states, religious symbols), and insulting racial, national, or religious feelings.

    So far, it is only a matter of having a relatively soft prohibition against these symbols, preventing their use as emblems of non-profit organizations (NPOs), public and religious associations.

    However, it is difficult to resist the call to treat this bill with wary, hostile attention. And I urge, I urge precisely for this!

    Firstly, on the example of a black list of sites, we recently saw that a soft ban can easily turn into harsh penalties in the form of fines and long sentences of imprisonment, if the legislator so wishes. In addition, the scope of such a ban may expand: for example, a ban on storage will be introduced along with a ban on use, and then IT specialists will have to strain, checking the breadth of the coverage of symbolic fonts installed on computers, for example.

    Secondly, the completion of blacklists does not know hold. It is difficult to draw even in the mind the line beyond which the offense sets in. Didn’t we all become involuntary witnesses of how for “drugs”they closed the site about the EVE Online game (which described the use of fictional chemicals to fictional characters), for “propaganda of suicide” - simple humor ( an article in Absurdopedia or Kaganov’s texts ) or horror films about supernatural coercion to suicide (for example, they seize under the pretext of child suicide from the sale of manga «Death Note» in Sverdlovsk region - although one of these hypocrites is not interested, for example, immortalized in the title of this particular area of the name of one of the organizers of the murder of all the children of the last emperor ), For "extremism" - a nationally-targeted anti-alcohol propaganda (№1568 in the Federal List of Extremist Materials), trade union agitation (No. 443, No. 444) and anti-crisis satire (No. 446).

    Will the replenishment of the newly made register of forbidden characters turn out to be similarly wide? Not that, you know, all sorts of extreme cases come to mind from the legal experience of Western barbarians ...

    This April, a French citizen was detained by the police during a picnic in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. The reason for the detention was a jacket, which depicts a heterosexual family (mother, father and two children) holding hands. The police decided that this symbol offends the feelings of sexual minorities .

    In the film "Brother-2", a state Negro uses the racist insult "snowflake" ("snowflake") against a white character. Will the custom of Internet sites turn out to be a fall of snowflakes on New Year’s?

    Or is this not possible in Russia?

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