Overseas to read suits throw you, no matter how infuriated. Secret lists of forbidden sites now in Russia!

I'll start with a little historical introduction.

A little more than three years ago (March 19, 2009) I was extremely annoyed by the content from Slashdot from Australia (and then selectively translated by the lqp blogger) news about how wild and unworthy the Australian Communications Ministry (ACMA) put into action a list of those sites that should be blocked by Australian providers. Then I posted this news on Habrahabr . Its gloomy details were marasmus, a nightmare, the mayhem of surrealistic, anti-utopian totalitarianism:

• It was forbidden not only to show the sites included in the black list of the Ministry of Communications, but also to put hyperlinks on them (from forums, for example). And, moreover, from the Australian forum Whirlpool demanded a fine (eleven thousand dollars a day!) For one such hyperlink.
  
• The very contents of the black list was declared an Australian state secret, for the disclosure of which a criminal penalty is imposed. Therefore, about which sites you cannot put hyperlinks to, kind people (owners of the Internet forum, for example) were forced to find out already after a lawsuit was filed against them and a car of prosecution began to work.
  
• Using the fact that the contents of the black list is forbidden to know (and therefore discuss), the authorities replenished it with the most diverse (far from certain) content. For example, they placed both a site about a similar list in Denmark (that is, Australians were forbidden to know how the Danes were forbidden) and a wiki site for draining political compromising material (wikileaks.org), and a website for opponents of abortion (with photos gutted embryos), and so on.

I added then: “The only bright moment in this story is that it takes place in Australia, far from us. Rejoice over it while you can. ”
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Alas, today it becomes clear that those my words turned out to be prophetic. Know, dear readers, that Russia is on the verge of introducing exactly the same form of censorship!

In “Vedomosti” and then on the “Reedus” website it is not difficult to read that the joint working group (consisting of Russian parliamentarians, representatives of the Ministry of Communications and the Internet community) decided to make the Russian registry of banned web pages hidden from the public , so they say advertise such sites. (“This will be a catalog of filthy content,” said Igor Ashmanov, managing partner of Ashmanov and Partners.)

Alexey Volin (Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications) said that the closed registry does not create ground for pressure on the administration of sites, because the law says that if one or another page of the site is entered in the registry, the site administration is notified immediately.

Well, what will happen if the site administration spits on such a notice? (Which is not at all surprising if we recall for a moment the demands to close LiveJournal or divide the YouTube domain .) What, then, will the authorities intend to do with those citizens who unknowingly put a hyperlink to a site that has been secretly blacklisted ? Or with those citizens who "like" click ?

It seems to guess as easy as adding two and two.

I’ll add the recent observation of the above-mentioned blogger lqp: the intentions of the Ministry of Communications contradict the Constitution, Article 15 of which states that “any regulatory legal acts affecting the rights, freedoms and duties of a person and citizen cannot be used if they are not officially published to the public”.