"The Elders of Zion" became another reason for blocking Wikipedia

The Russian authorities have long been trying to block individual pages of the Wikipedia e-encyclopedia. However, the clumsiness of the methods used in blocking leads to the fact that the Wiki, which has been using the HTTPS protocol for quite some time, falls under the whole block, instead of restricting access to a separate page of the site.

It happened this time. The regulator represented by Roskomnadzor spotted on the Wiki page with another extremist text, recognized as such by a court decision back in 2010. This is the text “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, which was entered into the register of prohibited information as of July 26, 2010, by decision of the Leninsky District Court of the city of Orenburg.
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The text of the notification from the RKN, published on Wikipedia :

Hello.

We inform you that the “Unified Register of Domain Names, Website Indexes on the Internet and Network Addresses, which allow to identify websites on the Internet, containing information that is prohibited in the Russian Federation,” includes two pages of your resource:

s: Protocols of the Elders of Zion

s: Protocols of the Elders of Zion

On these pages, the text of the pamphlet “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, by the decision of the Leninsky District Court of the city of Orenburg dated 07/26/2010, recognized as extremist and entered in the Federal List of Extremist Materials No. 1496 is posted on this page . //radolub.narod.ru/Sionskie_protokoli.htm ).

In this regard, we ask, as soon as possible, to take measures to remove prohibited information or restrict access to it in the territory of the Russian Federation.

The official notices of this fact, sent earlier, are attached.

Respectfully,

FEDERAL SERVICE FOR SUPERVISION IN THE SPHERE OF COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MASS COMMUNICATION.

According to the text of the links, "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a fictional text, preaching about the world Jewish conspiracy, first published in 1903.

There are numerous evidences (in print, in court and in independent research) that they are plagiarism and hoax.

The controversial text itself, which caused outrage of the Orenburg court, is posted on Wikisource, however, it uses one ip address with the Russian segment of Wikipedia, as well as the standard HTTPS access protocol for the resource, which, in aggregate, leads to global blocking of not only Wikiteks , but also the maternal "Wikipedia". Stanislav Kozlovsky, executive director of the Wikimedia RU, responded to the situation in his twitter in the following way:

Roskomnadzor made to the Registry Wikisource. In addition to it, Wikipedia, which has the same IP, can be under attack. Read more: https://t.co/idDFJ54Brl

- Stas Kozlovsky (@stas_kozlovskiy) August 1, 2016

According to the information of the “RosKomSvoboda” resource, the list of “extremist materials” included not the text of the “wise men”, but a specific brochure, and not, especially, the fact of mentioning the work, for distribution for which Wikis was hit.

Accordingly, this warning is an expanded interpretation of the decision of the Orenburg court by Roskomnadzor itself, and not a direct court decision on blocking the page.

The head of the legal service of "RosKomSvobody" Sarkis Darbinyan commented on the actions of the RNN as follows:

“It is obvious that in this case Roskomnadzor substitutes the decision of the court and takes on too much, allowing a frivolous interpretation of the law and court rulings. In 2010, Wikipedia was not a party to the case, and the court did not consider any claims about the work itself. The extremist brochure was recognized, in which, apparently, besides the work, there were some anti-Semitic appeals to Jewish pogroms. Therefore, the community is not obliged to comply with the unlawful demand of the department.
The main issue in such cases is the limitation period of requirements for the execution of court decisions. In this regard, the blocking legislation is somehow out of the general principles of the civil process. The enforcement of court decisions is the task of enforcement proceedings. To this end, the law provides for a general three-year statute of limitations for filing an application of this kind.
At least, if Roskomnadzor, bypassing the bailiffs, makes court decisions directly from the courts to enforce them without requesting the writ of execution, in any case, the law should be applied by analogy with the calculation of the 3-year time limit for submission. Otherwise, soon we will be able to see the judicial acts of the Soviet courts, submitted to execution, which, by the way, no one has also canceled. ”

Apparently, someone missed the resonant reports of blocking the main Internet encyclopedia of the planet.