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WEB-SURFING RUSSIANS ENDURED a brief scare today when it appeared that authorities had blocked YouTube after the video-sharing site appeared on a list of banned addresses, in what officials later called a “technical mistake”.
The new registry of blacklisted websites introduced this month showed the website youtube.com as having been added there on Wednesday by Russia’s consumer protection agency and remained on it for several minutes.
After a media furore swiftly ensued, the agency’s head Gennady Onishchenko told Russian news agencies that the intention was to ban 22 specific videos, rather than the whole service, notably ones giving instructions on how to commit suicide.
The spokesman for communications ministry’s watchdog responsible for the website registry Vladimir Pikov called the incident a “technical mistake”, without giving further explanations.
Russians have been worried about an impending Internet crackdown ever since the hasty recent passage of a law which introduced the concept of the blacklist.
Supporters said it was necessary for blocking harmful content, including suicide manuals, child pornography, and information on illicit drugs, but critics saw it as yet another measure to suppress free speech following President Vladimir Putin’s election to a historic third term in May.
The legislation was protested by many global websites, including Russian search engine Yandex and Wikipedia, who warned that the mechanism behind the blacklist could be used for a blanket shutdown of popular social networks.
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Parents only thinking of themseleves again never mind the damage to the child.
Can these parents try to be civilised for the sake of their daughter ? What the hell are they putting her through ?
@Catherine Sims: woeful for the child to experience that kidnapping. I pity the poor child with parents ( at least the dad) like that
Are we only getting a fraction of the story possibly? Where did they live? Is there for example a Norwegian Court ruling granting custody to the father but the Cypriot authorities were not helpful in enforcing it? More info would be helpful.
A domestic basically and the child is not in any danger! Talk about click bait!!! But what has the fact that the Turkish-Cypriot part of the country has no extradition agreement with any other country got to do with this story? The child was kidnapped from the Greek-Cypriot part and the in now in Norway!!! I know we are clever and can fill in the gaps for ourselves but that’s not journalism!
@Missyb211: so you’d be fine if two masked men took your child off you under the instructions of your ex and brought her to another country ? Pull the other one …
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