“VKontakte” blocked the group to help LGBT teenagers – Forbes Russia

The social network “Vkontakte” blocked the Community “Children-404″, created to support for LGBT teens because of the decision of Roskomnadzor on making community in the register of banned information, spokesman for social networks George Lobushkin on his page on Friday, 25 September.

«Unfortunately, after long discussions with lawyers, we could not find a legitimate reason to leave the community to open. In case of default regulations VKontakte regulator would have been completely blocked. Group of children-404 blocked users VKontakte in Russia, “- said Lobushkin.

At the very page of the” kids-404 “displays a message stating that” the material is blocked by the decision of the Central District Court Barnaul, Altai region on July 7, 2015 ».

Despite the ban Roskomnadzor in” VKontakte “has a new group of” kids-404 “, the administrator of the group is Elena Klimova, who is the creator of the first blocked the community for help LGBT young people.

Earlier Roskomnadzor decided to bring in a single register of banned information five communities “VKontakte” for propaganda netraditsionalnyh sexual relations among adolescents.

“In Roskomnadzor received entered into force decision of the Central District Court of Barnaul in the five communities of the social network “VKontakte”. The court found the information contained in the pages of these communities, the promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships among teenagers “, – the press-service agency and specified that information on the pages in the” black list “must be removed within three days, as the Court held that group names, and they contain content focused on the audience “The children / teenagers».

The group “Children-404″ was created by a resident of Nizhny Tagil Helena Klimova in 2013 to support LGBT youth. In early 2015 the court found Klimov guilty of spreading propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors and fined 50 000 rubles. Such a decision the court took on the treatment of activists of “Young Guard” United Russia “. Later Dzerzhinsky district court of Nizhny Tagil court overturned the decision and sent the case back for retrial. In July, the world court of Nizhny Tagil again fined Elena Klimova for propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors 50 000.

The American Foreign Policy magazine in 2014 included Klimov in the annual list of 100 world thinkers (100 Global Thinkers).

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