«Wikipedia” has no plans to remove an article about how to prepare narcotic-containing substance. On Thursday, with the corresponding requirement was made by Roskomnadzor, referring to the decision Chernojarsky District Court of Astrakhan region on June 25, 2015. The regulator did not specify what kind of online encyclopedia article in question.
As told RBC executive director of the nonprofit partenrstva “Wikimedia RU” (engaged in support “of Wikipedia in Russian) Stanislav Kozlovsky,” the decision to delete article takes participants “Wikipedia”. According to him, during the discussion of the majority voted against the measure. He stressed that after any of encyclopedia articles attracted the attention of supervisory authorities, it “is appended and updated.” The information contained in an article for the moment, taken from scientific sources and is a rather “academic text».
Kozlovsky said that the claims court has caused the article “Charas”. It deals on Narcotic Drugs, which is considered “the most powerful psychoactive hemp products.” The article tells about the manufacture and use of charas.
In a conversation with RBC Kozlovsky said that in the Uniform register of banned sites are other articles “Wikipedia”, which also have not been removed. Among them were articles about cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, cannabis smoking, suicide and others.
Talking about the possibility of deadlocking “Wikipedia”, Kozlovsky noted that until now Roskomnadzor “not allow himself to public threats “. “Apparently, they decided to block the” Wikipedia “- he said. Executive Director of the NP “Wikimedia RU” could not guess why this decision was taken at the moment. Kozlovsky said that in the case of blocking “Wikipedia” will explain to readers how to circumvent the ban. He recalled that the article and the resource are blocked by the authorities of other countries, including China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
On 20 August Roskomnadzor published a post about a possible blocking of “Wikipedia” on its official page to Facebook. The report said that the regulator has received the decision of the district court Chernojarsky “prohibiting distribution in the Russian information on how to prepare narcotic-containing substances, placed on the page Russian version of the Internet resource” Wikipedia “. Roskomnadzor noted that, in the event that a resource will refuse to remove the article, it will have to block.
«In this case, since the decision of the administration of” Wikipedia “Internet resource is functioning on the basis of the protocol HTTPS, not allowing access restrictions to individual pages, the whole resource would be blocked. We are convinced that the owners of Internet resources will take a constructive and only correct position in relation to a court decision, and illegal content will be removed “, – explained in Roskomnadzor.
The law” On the protection of children from harmful information ” effective 1 September 2012, suggests that the websites or individual pages of resources can get into the black list of the materials containing child pornography, information on the manufacture of drugs and how to commit suicide. Amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information”, require the owner of the site to block or remove illegal content within days, otherwise the access must be limited to the provider.
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