Black lists: how we sued the Rospotrebnadzor
On Monday, a meeting was held in the Obninsk City Court on challenging the prohibition of the page “How to: Suicide” from the “ Absurdopedia ” comic encyclopedia. On November 17, 2012, the page was added to the black list of sites, prohibited for distribution on the territory of Russia, by the Rospotrebnadzor due to the presence of “information about the methods of suicide”. You can familiarize yourself with the article and evaluate their competence here (license CC-BY-SA 3.0), and see below how “effective” is challenging this law.
Read about the course of the lawsuit from the plaintiff (the owner of the site, Eduard Chernenko, edwardspec ) here . In the same place there is an examination in which very busy conclusions come across. For example, the logo of the subproject “How to” (approximately 300 comic guides), she described the picture with crossed tools that is present on hundreds of pages as “from the point of view of the authors, they are peculiar tools-symbols for committing suicide” (!). Objections of the representative of Rospotrebpozor can be found here: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 (scanned sheets; at the beginning it is rather boring, interesting things start from the middle of sheet No. 5 - expertise is cited there), and the statement of claim is here .
From the judicial debate:
- Do I understand correctly that the experts were not asked to answer the question “Does the information on the page harm someone’s health and morality,” but only “Does the article contain information about suicide methods?”
- “Yes, we are not interested in anything else except this, and we don’t need to know this in order to prohibit”
Quotes from expertise:
- Prohibited information is contained in the site completely, and, above all, in the heading "How correctly: to commit suicide"
- ... the authors in satirical form show their frivolous attitude to this issue
- Such articles are propaganda of suicidal behavior among adolescents, who regard these plots not as humorous or humorous, but as a “guide to action”
')
Absurdopedia - a parody of the popular online encyclopedia "Wikipedia", an international non-commercial project (there are sections in 75 languages). Her materials are all comic polls, and the description of the facts is even prohibited by the rules. In Absurdopedia, several hundred writers, not counting anonymous editors, and the founder of the site itself (the plaintiff) is the author of more than 150 articles.
The court refused to cancel the censorship of the article.
Read about the course of the lawsuit from the plaintiff (the owner of the site, Eduard Chernenko, edwardspec ) here . In the same place there is an examination in which very busy conclusions come across. For example, the logo of the subproject “How to” (approximately 300 comic guides), she described the picture with crossed tools that is present on hundreds of pages as “from the point of view of the authors, they are peculiar tools-symbols for committing suicide” (!). Objections of the representative of Rospotrebpozor can be found here: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 (scanned sheets; at the beginning it is rather boring, interesting things start from the middle of sheet No. 5 - expertise is cited there), and the statement of claim is here .
From the judicial debate:
- Do I understand correctly that the experts were not asked to answer the question “Does the information on the page harm someone’s health and morality,” but only “Does the article contain information about suicide methods?”
- “Yes, we are not interested in anything else except this, and we don’t need to know this in order to prohibit”
Quotes from expertise:
- Prohibited information is contained in the site completely, and, above all, in the heading "How correctly: to commit suicide"
- ... the authors in satirical form show their frivolous attitude to this issue
- Such articles are propaganda of suicidal behavior among adolescents, who regard these plots not as humorous or humorous, but as a “guide to action”
')
Absurdopedia - a parody of the popular online encyclopedia "Wikipedia", an international non-commercial project (there are sections in 75 languages). Her materials are all comic polls, and the description of the facts is even prohibited by the rules. In Absurdopedia, several hundred writers, not counting anonymous editors, and the founder of the site itself (the plaintiff) is the author of more than 150 articles.
The court refused to cancel the censorship of the article.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/175205/
All Articles