Roskomnadzor has entered into the register of prohibited sites Vice.com for the "promotion of shoplifting"

It turns out that sites in Russia are being blocked not only for the promotion of suicide, extremism and child pornography, but even for instructions on “petty shopping” . It is for such an article, in which readers share their experience of petty theft from stores, in Russia, the site of the media company Vice.com may be blocked. The official wording is “propaganda of theft of goods”.

"On the basis of the decision of the Tobolsk City Court of the Tyumen Region, the Registry has included the URL address of the site of a major media company vic.com, containing information on the promotion of the theft of goods from shopping centers and stores," the Roskomnadzor blog said.

The strangeness of the situation, apparently, is obvious even to employees of Roskomnadzor: “Our notifications addressed to the site administration were ignored. We hope that this is a misunderstanding, and the editors of the site will nevertheless respond and restrict access to the Russian users to the material that the court recognized as prohibited for distribution on the territory of the Russian Federation. ”
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If you can not read the original article , then there are published tips on petty theft from the store from three readers: a bank employee, a student and a housewife. For example, a housewife Marina advises to take a child to the store or to go with friends who have children: “You can divide the prey in half, and if at the exit someone searches the child, you can safely say:“ Sorry, he grabbed something not that ", and slamming eyes, to give the goods back."

The publication finishes the material with a moralizing council: “Unfortunately, those who have been caught stealing on cheese and bread are not available for interview now, because they exist in completely different places. And believe me, where they live, there is nothing to drag away. Be careful and remember, to go to jail for expressing your citizenship or for a multigrain loaf are completely different things. ”

But even this morality did not save the site from blocking.

“If you have witnessed the dissemination of information about the so-called“ shoplifting ”, we ask you to inform the law enforcement agencies. Theft is prohibited by law, ”Roskomnadzor warns, accompanying its message with a cheerful GIF:



Shouldn't the court recognize after this GIF that Roskomnadzor itself is engaged in “propaganda of theft of goods”?