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Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With "Bloggers Law"
The New York Times ^ | May 6, 2014 | NEIL MacFARQUHAR

Posted on 05/07/2014 8:27:03 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne

Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers, Internet pioneers and political activists said Tuesday would give the government a much wider ability to track who said what online.

Mr. Putin’s action on Monday, just weeks after he disparaged the Internet as “a special C.I.A. project,” borrowed a page from the restrictive Internet playbooks of many governments around the world that have been steadily smothering online freedoms they once tolerated.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: blogcrime; internet; russiainternet
Coming soon to an internet near you ?

Barry-O and Hillary are bothe taking notes.

1 posted on 05/07/2014 8:27:03 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne

Buckeye McFrog
1060 W. Addison
Chicago, IL 60613


2 posted on 05/07/2014 8:31:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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1rudeboy
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Chicago, IL 60616
3 posted on 05/07/2014 8:37:53 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Toddsterpatriot
141 W Jackson Blvd
Chicago, IL 60604


4 posted on 05/07/2014 8:46:39 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

We don’t have to register. The USA NSA just searches everyone and saves the info.


5 posted on 05/07/2014 9:01:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Izzy Dunne

Can we send them our Chief of Blog Police?


6 posted on 05/07/2014 9:12:33 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Wagglebee please come home we miss you! ~ Þ)
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To: Sacajaweau
"We don’t have to register. The USA NSA just searches everyone and saves the info."

LOL! "Registration in the US is Automatic."

7 posted on 05/07/2014 10:13:14 AM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Elwood, is that you?


8 posted on 05/07/2014 12:34:18 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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