The main foreign collections of anime pictures are disabled by Roskomnadzor

At the beginning of the month (November 1), I mentioned at Habrahabr about the closure of access to the Sankaku Complex by Roskomnadzor, and in the comments, veam added that several days before that, access to the large board of pictures was closed to Gelbooru .

Now I have to add to this equally sad news. All readers gathered from Russia to visit another large collection of anime pictures - the Danbooru website , on the idea of ​​which Gelbooru was originally based - have been forced to watch the blocking message for several days:


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Another significant collection of anime pictures ( Yande.re , the name of which comes from the Japanese word ン ン デ レ, meaning insane and deadly in love) was tweeted the day before that the harassment of Roskomnadzor, addressed to their provider, led to the decision independently block access for all Russian readers of the site. And you can really see “403 Forbidden” from nginx.

Please understand that although for brevity I have to call them “anime pictures”, all the sites described above served as fan collecting and such illustrations that are related to the adjacent forms of contemporary Japanese visual art. This is not only anime, but also manga, and ranobe, and visual novels, and some computer games (JRPG, danmaku, fighting games, etc.).

If you look at this list of sites closed by Roskomnadzor in less than a month, you can see: it contains all the main danbooru-like collections of anime pictures that exist on the modern Internet. I couldn’t put any other website on Danbooru or Gelbooru along with the number of illustrations - and even Yande.re could not; Yande.re was also forced to open the door from Russia.

The Russian authorities quite deliberately struck such a force on anime culture in Russia, from which fans of internet viewing anime pictures could never have recovered if it were not for the existence of anonymizers, onion routers and other similar technical means.

Please consider it pissed and me personally.

To be honest, it will only get worse: I do not see any reason for optimism regarding the future.

For example, the day before yesterday (November 19), Vilgelm in the blog “The HRC suggested closing foreign sites with dubious content ” kindly told us the article by Elena Teslova “ Foreign sites with dubious content will not be allowed into Russia ”, which he discovered in Izvestia.

Approving this retelling, I intend at the same time to draw your attention to another article by Teslova published in Izvestia the day before - to the article “ Mikhail Fedotov proposes to adapt the Constitution to the Internet ” with the subtitle “The Chair of the HRC proposes to adapt the Basic Law to life in the information society” .

In this article, we see the general words of this policy about the need to combat cybercrime.

I propose to ponder the question: what kind of cybercrime is meant? Alas, the boundaries of this concept have expanded to the extreme. The criteria that darau diligently retold to us this morning look vague - and are called upon to most likely justify the abuse of the terrible year of 2013, in which we all had to see how bonuses of computer games (designed like fantastic chemistry) are declared to promote drug use , satirical works about suicide (as in Absurdopedia or in Kaganov ) is prosecuted as suicide propaganda, the appearance of big-eyed characters in an erotic manga is considered propaganda (and not even an act) of pedophilia. Under the pretext of child suicide, the death note manga in the Sverdlovsk region was withdrawn from sale (although the entire region is named after one of the organizers of the murder of the Emperor’s children, but nobody cares). And about extremism and say nothing. On the Internet, national-targeted anti-alcohol propaganda is persecuted for “extremism” (No. 1568 in the federal List of Extremist Materials ). In the city of Kemerovo, they even conduct a criminal case (with search and detention) against a person who tweeted the “ retweet ” button on Twitter where the FSB did not like it.

I also propose thinking over another question: why does the HRC want to change the Constitution? Do you think that the chairman of the Human Rights Council wants to add to the Constitution any new rights for Internet users? Or is it more likely that the opposite is the case, so that we are talking about changes in the Constitution that would cease to keep the Russian authorities from such measures against Internet sites, which are now rightly considered anti-constitutional measures and human rights violations?

Believe: it's better to think about it now. Later, when the authorities think of setting up death camps (or at least bracelets for ogres ), it will be too late to think; it's better to stay here on the network.

Finally, I thank stalkerg for the informational support in the work on this blog post.