A Russian politician is trying to amend an internet censorship law so that it bans swearing on the web.
State Duma Deputy Yelena Mizulina, who is chairperson of Russia's Committee for Family, Women, and Children, has proposed the changes, which would affect social networks, social media and forums. If offending material is not deleted within 24 hours, the page would then be blocked and added to a blacklist.
Just like David Cameron's recent proposals for introducing stricter internet filtering in the UK, the aim of the legislation would be to protect children from encountering unsuitable content. The amendment would be to a law entitled 'On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development', which came into effect in September 2012 and introduced a huge blacklist of sites covering topics such as drugs, suicide and child pornography.
A similar proposal to Mizulina's was put forward on 25 July by United Russia deputy Vitaly Milonov, who wants to tighten controls over social networks and enforce a rule whereby to sign up for a dating site you have to do so using your passport. Milonov is the same politician who last year was behind a bill that banned "promoting sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism to minors".
By: Katie Collins,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/30/russia-censors-internet-swearing
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