Vimeo video hosting Roscomnadzor made in the register of banned sites – RBC

Roskomnadzor announced the decision of the Office on Monday. « Access to Vimeo video sharing is limited to operators at the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation », – said in a statement posted on the official page in facebook agencies. Office made in the register of banned sites link to video “Islamic State” “The flames of war».

As of 17:15 vimeo.com site was still working.

According to the law the site where found illegal material, be blocked immediately after a decision Roskomnadzora. At the same time the owner of the resource is notified about the need to remove prohibited content. If the management of the site removes material, access to the resource is restored.

December 28, 2013 a law was passed about blocking for extremism, which entered into force on 1 February 2014. Since then, two warnings discharged Roscomnadzor media during the year, are the basis for the supervisory authority in the court to suspend or revoke this media certificate of registration. Sites offenders fall into a single register of banned sites and shall be locked.

July 4 Roskomnadzora representative said, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, which has restricted access to the law on the blocking of child pornography and drugs to 2.5 thousand . Internet resources. A list of these sites in the public domain is not, however, online registry zapret-info.gov.ru can check whether it falls into it specific URL-address by typing it in the search box.

In 2014 the authorities continued a course to tighten censorship on the Internet. May 5 signed the “law of the bloggers”, according to which every owner of a site with the attendance of more than 3 thousand. People are obliged to disclose a day on the site its name and initials, and a valid email address. By law, the blogger is personally responsible equated to media responsibility for the accuracy of the information published by them. The law came into force on 1 August 2014.

October 15, President Vladimir Putin signed a law limiting foreign participation in the media. Under the new law, which will come into force on 1 January 2017, the share of foreign capital in any Russian media can not exceed 20%.