The interdistrict prosecutor of the Preobrazhensky district of Moscow demands from the district court to recognize LiveJournal as an extremist site

With the mildest habit of law enforcement agencies to punish the entire social network for the guilt of one of its users, the general public got acquainted for a long time. For example, in April 2010, in Arzamas, the provider, acting at the direct request of the FSB, blocked, by IP-addresses (!), User access to a number of sites whose domain names were contained in the federal “ List of Extremist Materials ”; of these sites, however, only two names were made public at that time - livejournal.com (blog hosting site “LiveJournal”) and zhurnal.lib.ru (site “Samizdat”).

It turns out that this story began for Samizdat magazine a year earlier - on April 13, 2009, when the Cherepovets City Court of the Vologda Region decided that the materials posted on the website www.zhurnal.lib.ru are extremist; There is reason to believe that the court had in mind the work of the only one of the fifty-six thousand authors of Samizdat (because the author’s website also mentioned this site on Narod.Ru), but the court nevertheless decided to close the entire site. As a result, this is what happened: five days ago (February 23), Maxim Moshkov (the administrator of the Samizdat website) reported on his LiveJournal blog that he decided to remove the Samizdat website from this domain.

But this story did not end for LiveJournal: a day before Moshkov (February 22), the blogger nb_licantrop , about whom investigative actions in the extremism case were previously conducted, posted the scan results of the prosecutor’s application filed in court. It is not difficult to see in the statement that the prosecutor considered this blogger as the administrator of LiveJournal and asks to recognize the entire livejournal.com as an extremist diary, and the court's decision to send it to the Ministry of Justice - obviously, in order to replenish the local “List of extremist materials” .
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If now, even by court, they strive for each and every nickname so much that they shut down websites with tens of thousands of users, among which one or two suspects in extremism fall , then what kind of “excesses on the ground” can be expected from tomorrow, when the law comes into force? About the police "and if he gives the right to close sites without a court decision ? So far, we can only guess. But until the “hour P” remains a matter of hours.

_{In the illustration is the goat Frank, the unofficial symbol-mascot of LiveJournal.}