Filters working: Lurkmore

IP address 85.17.124.180, belonging to the online encyclopedia Lurkomorye , was included on Sunday 11/11/12 in the Unified Register of Prohibited Sites of Roskomnadzor.

This, as is clear from the official data of the search in the register, was done on the basis of a proposal from the Federal Drug Control Service dated November 4, this year. d. Needless to say, the address 85.17.124.180 does not say a word about drugs (there is no link to the bad “Substances” section in the text of the resource’s title page). At the moment, the site is accessible intermittently: its owners respond to filtering by changing their IP. You can follow the progress of the competition on Lurk's official Twitter .

Given the wording in which the idiotic law No. 139-FZ was adopted and entered into force, exactly such excesses were to be expected.

Because the Russian reader is familiar with the way of thinking of individual oaks from drug control from their practice of banning books. The list of authors banned at various times by FSKN officials for “drug propaganda” includes Irvine Welsh and Alex Garland, Perez-Reverte and Stanislav Grof, Aleister Crowley and Philip K. Dick, Sergei Kuznetsov and Linor Goralik, Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Leary.

The official logic of the doldons from the Federal Drug Control Service is quite simple: if any literary work, reference book or textbook mentions the use of prohibited substances, then this is absolutely enough to consider such a work “drug propaganda”, completely regardless of the meaning and context of the references.

The unofficial logic is even simpler: if there is such an area of ​​activity of the department as “fighting drug propaganda,” then someone needs to be banned in order to be included in the report on the work done.

Moreover, it is easy and simple to ban books and websites. And let Roizman fight drug trafficking.

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