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Russia blocks Youtube
VIDEO SHARING WEBSITE Youtube has been blocked by a Russian Internet service provider (ISP) after a court deemed that the service carries extremist videos.
The ban comes after a video entitled Russia for Russians was posted on the website. It led to a court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur ordering the local ISP to block access to Youtube and other websites. The others fell afoul of Russian anti-extremist laws by publishing parts of Adolf Hilter's Mein Kampf.
This isn't the first time Youtube has been blocked, with Pakistan repeatedly going after the website when it thinks Youtube has content that might offend Muslims. China also blocked Youtube in 2008 after videos of Tibetan protesters were uploaded.
Russia's anti-extremism laws have led to questions about whether it limits its citizens' freedom of expression. At present only one Russian ISP, RA RTS, has been ordered to block the video sharing website. It is not known whether other ISPs will be forced to do the same.
The only problem is that a blanket ban would mean that Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev's videos will also be blocked. Vladimir Putin's protegé recently launched his own Youtube channel.
RA RTS has said that it will appeal the ruling. µ
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Normally it's the Beeb that runs crap headlines, but you really have them beaten with this one. One Russian ISP blocking YouTube is not the same as "Russia Blocks YouTube". Kindly pack it in.
Normally it's the Beeb that runs crap headlines, but you really have them beaten with this one. One Russian ISP blocking YouTube is not the same as "Russia Blocks YouTube". Kindly pack it the fuck in.
There definition of extremism is interesting. This guy doesn't sound all the crazy...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/world/europe/28russia.html?_r=1&sq=russia%20youtube&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=2&adxnnlx=1280516510-FhKuYH2WfQVxthhuiyrPxw
And I thought only republicans warp news to suit their own agenda. Yet both parties do it.
I agree with your last statement though. Usually people with conservative values are the ones offended by everything and are responsible for trying to force said values on everyone else.
However this is not the same as stopping a kid from watching an adult film. This is a government trying to put a stop to xenophobic propaganda. Not the right way to do it, but I can't I totally disagree with the effort.
I thought only democrats tried to stop everything that offends anyone.
If a few people can't handle open media (cough - *ussys) they should put their computer back in box and give it so somoene with better mental capacity. Don't treat everyone like 2 year olds (who should have filtered/supervised content)
Well maybe if enough ISP's there ban YouTube then my 15mbps connection won't buffer when attempting to watch HD video.
Unless I missed something, the Russian Premier is Putin, since Premier is another name for Prime Minister. Medvedev is the President of the Russian Federation.