Reddit blocked in Russia due to linking to drugs information
[2 Points] Underthearchway:
[3 Points] CheekyDive:
Those crazy Russians
[4 Points] Deku-shrub:
Interesting theory here
I don't think anyone here understands what actually happened. It's not Russian government who decided to ban Reddit, it's Russian social activist decided to ridicule the law which allows Russian government to block websites on the internet. /u/rsocfan created his account, a subreddit and posted that post for the sole purpose of blocking Reddit in Russia. He made this post which he knew was breaching Russian laws and then he himself submitted the complain about this post to the government. First the government replied that it is all sorted without actually doing anything, but 2 years later (I assume after /u/rsocfan made more complaints) they actually got around asking Reddit to remove the post and after Reddit failed to respond they decided to block that page. I assume that /u/rsocfan 's hope was that the whole Reddit will get blocked due to https, but for some reason (my guess is that Reddit actually collaborated) that didn't happen...
And here he is posting on TIFU:
Today Reddit was blocked in Russia, and I am the one who posted this post which lead to this.
In Russia, there is a law which allow Roskomnadzor, Russian censorship agency, to block any website without court rulling. Two years ago I tested how RKN react to abuse on popular websites/crazy abuses. On of that websites was Reddit.
One thing I learned is that RKN doesn't want to block popular websites. They respond me that this content is illegal and they blocked it, but they weren't. It was on 05/21/2013. On 10st Aug 2015 they posted a call to help them contact Reddit administration to official VK page. Funny thing, but they called Psilocybe a plant. Several hours ago they reported that Reddit is blocked in Russia. Seems like things changed.
How Reddit is blocked? Fully. As Reddit switched to HTTPS, there is no way to block special page.
Will I remove this post? No. I also think that Reddit administration needs to do nothing. This is important issue on freedom of speech, and only RKN want to violate it.
BTW, this post is a guide for indoor growing Psilocybe mushrooms in Russian. I'm not sure if any people saw this before blocking, but if you are here and you can read Russian, now you know to grow some shrooms, thanks to RKN.
[1 Points] Gomba1:
From talking to friends who are Russian and using state ISP's i can confirm that this is bullshit - only link to the thread is blocked, not whole Reddit.
First cheese, now Reddit.