Russia threatens to ban Google, Twitter and Facebook over extremist content

Posted by falcor84 on Thursday May 21, 2015 @10:04AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/20/russia-threaten-ban-google-twitter-facebook-bloggers-law

( 2 comments | 3 points | on HN )

Re:Russia threatens to ban Google, Twitter and Facebook over... by mikehawkins on Thursday May 21, 2015 @10:27AM (#9582916)

Sigh. I wish I could summon up the will to be a bit more insightful - but after reading yet another ill-advised attempt to crack down on service providers for user-generated content...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Russia threatens to ban Google, Twitter and Facebook over... by Russwrites on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:47AM (#9616987)

It's a good excuse to ban anything that has 'extremist' content so they can stop anything getting round their extremist propaganda machines.

[ Parent | on HN ]