Counter common sense. On the possible blocking of Yandex by the decision of the Khabarovsk court
On December 10, 2013, the prosecutor appealed to the Central District Court of Khabarovsk with a claim for countering extremism. On February 5, a court decision was issued - Rostelecom is obliged to block access to several resources. Among them - Yandex and Kinopoisk. The decision should come into force on March 12 - if, up to this point, it has not been challenged by interested persons or someone from the case.
The decision of the court says that on the pages of yandex.ru/video/search?text= and kinopoisk.ru/film/79500 there are links to downloading the movie “Eternal Jew”, which is recognized as an extremist material and is banned in Russia. However, on none of these pages links to downloading the movie were not placed and could not be placed. The page on Yandex search on Video is an empty search query for which there is not only a forbidden film, but nothing at all. The reference to the Film Search is only background information about the film, including that in Russia it is included in the list of extremist materials. In addition, neither Yandex.Video nor Kinopoisk offers any links to download content.
Since the court’s decision obliges Rostelecom to restrict access to yandex.ru/video/search?text= by IP address, more than 9 million of its subscribers may have the entire Yandex search blocked.
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We learned about the decision of the Khabarovsk court only on March 4. By chance. Unfortunately, no one applied to us in the process of considering the claim - neither the court nor the prosecutor's office. This is not the first time that a decision that clearly affects our interests and the interests of our users is made without us, and we learn about it from users who have our services suddenly become unavailable. When we manage to participate in the process before a decision is made, as a rule, we can explain how our services work and prevent blocking.
We sent a complaint to the Khabarovsk District Court and notified all interested parties - the court, the prosecutor's office and Rostelecom. We look forward to reviewing the decision.
The decision of the court says that on the pages of yandex.ru/video/search?text= and kinopoisk.ru/film/79500 there are links to downloading the movie “Eternal Jew”, which is recognized as an extremist material and is banned in Russia. However, on none of these pages links to downloading the movie were not placed and could not be placed. The page on Yandex search on Video is an empty search query for which there is not only a forbidden film, but nothing at all. The reference to the Film Search is only background information about the film, including that in Russia it is included in the list of extremist materials. In addition, neither Yandex.Video nor Kinopoisk offers any links to download content.
Since the court’s decision obliges Rostelecom to restrict access to yandex.ru/video/search?text= by IP address, more than 9 million of its subscribers may have the entire Yandex search blocked.
')
We learned about the decision of the Khabarovsk court only on March 4. By chance. Unfortunately, no one applied to us in the process of considering the claim - neither the court nor the prosecutor's office. This is not the first time that a decision that clearly affects our interests and the interests of our users is made without us, and we learn about it from users who have our services suddenly become unavailable. When we manage to participate in the process before a decision is made, as a rule, we can explain how our services work and prevent blocking.
We sent a complaint to the Khabarovsk District Court and notified all interested parties - the court, the prosecutor's office and Rostelecom. We look forward to reviewing the decision.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/214921/
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