[liberationtech] Russia telecom industry wants to build its own "great firewall" censorship system

[Patrick]

Russia is moving one-step closer to creating its own "great firewall," a
complex system of blocks and filters that would lock the country's Internet
inside a wall of censorship.

An influential Russian <http://dailydot.com/tags/russia> Internet industry
group yesterday proposed a “two-level filtration of the Internet” that will
include blacklists—already in heavy use in Russia—and real-time content
analysis that will block any website based on the whether or not the
content is against the law, multiple Russia media outlets report
<http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1358296>.

Russia’s League for Internet Safety, the powerful Moscow group behind the
2012 law that first established wide Internet blacklists in Russia, has put
their full weight behind the new proposal and has offered to run the system
themselves. The league was founded in 2011 by four major Russian
telecommunications companies including Rostelecom, a state-owned firm. It
also includes members like the head of Web portal Mail.ru and Igor
Shchyogolev, Russia's communications and press minister. The league's
entire purpose is to expand its policing of "negative content" in the
future.

More:
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/russia-two-level-filtration-censors/http://www.dailydot.com/politics/russia-two-level-filtration-censors/
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