The Ministry of Justice website was blocked because of a joke by the founder of a network library.

On October 10, 2012, the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice became inaccessible to some clients of the Netbynet provider, which provides Internet access in Moscow, the Moscow region and several other regions of Russia.

Representatives of the provider left a message on Twitter that “the Ministry of Justice has been blocked by the site administrator,” however, according to bloggers, the blocking is related to the ban on the extremist site Samizdat.

After the Cherepovets City Court recognized the materials posted on the website www.zhurnal.lib.ru as extremist, and the site was included in the Federal List, the founder of the lib.ru network library Maxim Moshkov announced that he was removing the Samizdat website from the www domain .zhurnal.lib.ru, since he was unable to resolve the problem of banning the entire site for extremism due to the materials of one author, and set up redirection from the old address to the main page of the Ministry of Justice website. Netbynet blocks access to the lib.ru website and, consequently, to the website of the Ministry of Justice.

In addition, Netbynet blocks access to the Librusec Internet library. Let us recall that on October 3, 2012, access to Librusek was blocked in Altai. The reason was the request of the prosecutor's office to close access to extremist materials posted on the library's pages. Since the providers were technically unable to block individual pages of Librusek, they blocked the entire resource.

Sources

• The Netbynet provider blocked the website of the Ministry of Justice // Lenta.ru. 2012. 2012. October 10.