Amendments to the law on mass media have been adopted in Belarus, allowing blocking objectionable Internet resources (article supplemented)
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Despite the fact that the law enters into force on January 1, 2015 and implies a procedure by which blocking is made after two warnings, the first victims have already appeared, because the law is for the people, not for the lawmakers:
Some sites are filtered at the level of the trunk provider, unprecedented measures are applied to some of them - domain separation. In any case, this is the first precedent of mass blocking sites in the Republic of Belarus.
Amendments to the law on mass media were adopted on December 17, 2014, in two readings, yesterday, on December 18, 2014, the Council of the Republic approved them.
The new law comes into force on January 1, 2015.
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The new version of the law provides for the registration of online media in the state register and the possibility of blocking the resource after two comments of the Ministry of Information for one year.
Remarkable is the fact that there was no discussion of the law with the parties concerned, the law was adopted almost in secrecy, although in spring, at the request of the Belarusian Union of Journalists to make amendments on freelance journalists, the ministry replied that "the law does not need amendments."
It should be noted that the implementation of the law in our country does not have any difficulties, because There are only two Internet gateway operators in the country:
More recently, Belarus, against the background of a wave of idiotic governing Internet laws enacted in the Russian Federation, looked like an island of adequacy, but the closer the elections, the worse the measures ...
The text of the law .
UPD: Internet blocking bypass methods (thanks to Temych )
Despite the fact that the law enters into force on January 1, 2015 and implies a procedure by which blocking is made after two warnings, the first victims have already appeared, because the law is for the people, not for the lawmakers:
- onliner.by is the most popular trading platform, forum and news resource on the Internet ( article on GT );
- belapan.by - news agency;
- prokopovi.ch - internet exchanger (black currency market);
- naviny.by - opposition media;
- charter97.org - opposition media;
- udf.by - opposition media;
- belaruspartizan.org - opposition media;
- gazetaby.com - online media.
Some sites are filtered at the level of the trunk provider, unprecedented measures are applied to some of them - domain separation. In any case, this is the first precedent of mass blocking sites in the Republic of Belarus.
Amendments to the law on mass media were adopted on December 17, 2014, in two readings, yesterday, on December 18, 2014, the Council of the Republic approved them.
The new law comes into force on January 1, 2015.
')
The new version of the law provides for the registration of online media in the state register and the possibility of blocking the resource after two comments of the Ministry of Information for one year.
Remarkable is the fact that there was no discussion of the law with the parties concerned, the law was adopted almost in secrecy, although in spring, at the request of the Belarusian Union of Journalists to make amendments on freelance journalists, the ministry replied that "the law does not need amendments."
It should be noted that the implementation of the law in our country does not have any difficulties, because There are only two Internet gateway operators in the country:
- Beltelecom is a Republican unitary enterprise, and for a long time, the monopolist of a network pass, has DPI and all the possibilities for filtering any kind of traffic.
- NCOT is an organization registered by the Operationally Analytical Center under the President of the Republic of Belarus, which coordinates the work of the Unified Republican Data Transmission Network (ERSPD) and provides legal entities with access to the global Internet. It has all the capabilities to filter any kind of traffic.
More recently, Belarus, against the background of a wave of idiotic governing Internet laws enacted in the Russian Federation, looked like an island of adequacy, but the closer the elections, the worse the measures ...
The text of the law .
UPD: Internet blocking bypass methods (thanks to Temych )
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/355754/
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