Russia will ban Wikipedia entirely because ISPs can’t afford tech to block individual pages [Update: now unblocked]
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on August 25, 2015
at 5:42 am
Update: The Financial Times reports that Russian internet regulator Roskomnadzor has lifted the ban in less than a day, as it found the article on Charas had been sufficiently edited on Russian Wikipedia to put the online encyclopedia in compliance with a court ruling from June. Russia is set to ban Wikipedia for users across the country because most of its internet service providers (ISPs) don’t have the expensive equipment necessary for blocking specific HTTPS pages, reports The Washington Post. The decision came about after a prosecutor in the southern village of Chyorny Yar raised concerns about an article describing a form of…
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