Vikitoria over censorship

Roskomnadzor lifted the complaints about the article on the psychodelic of Charas on Wikipedia. This is stated in a press release published on the website of the department.

"The decision of the Chernoyarsky court of the Astrakhan region in relation to the Internet encyclopedia" Wikipedia "is executed. The information recognized by the court prohibited is edited. An article on the narcotic substance of Charas, which is currently contained in Wikipedia, according to the expert conclusion of the FSKN of Russia, does not violate the requirements of the legislation. The reference indicated in this decision is excluded from the Unified Register forbidden information, ”the document says.

Thus, Russian providers should unlock access to Wikipedia.

On Tuesday night, Russian providers began to block Wikipedia . The first messages of users about the lack of access received about 2 a.m. in Moscow. “In general, the situation is clear: by morning, the full version will stop working with most users. The mobile continues to work, she has other IPs,” said the Russian Wikipedia. “Wikipedia is fine and it will be good - it’s bad for the people who were disconnected.”

In connection with the current situation, the Wikipedia administration lifted a previously valid ban on editing articles through open proxy servers and Tor for registered users. For anonymous, the ban remains in force.

Meanwhile, Gazeta.ru reports that the Orthodox activists turned to the TFR and the Secretary of an Office with a request to initiate cases of the Wikipedia of the case under Articles 315 of the Criminal Code (non -fulfillment of the court sentence, court decision or other judicial act), as well as 6.13 Administrative Code (propaganda of narcotic drugs).

On August 20, Roskomnadzor sent a notification to the Wikipedia administration that on June 25 the Chernoyarsk district court of the Astrakhan region banned an article on the psychodelics of Charas under the lawsuit of the prosecutor's office. This is the first time that the Wikipedia article is prohibited by the court. Earlier, the requirements for the removal or editing of articles were presented by the encyclopedia by the structures of the executive branch.

However, on Wikipedia, the requirement of the RKN was rejected. "The community looked at this article, it was rewritten so that it relies on reliable sources," said the director of the non -profit partnership Vicimedia.ru Vladimir Medeiko. "What will happen next - at the discretion of Roskomnadzor." Medeiko assured that "to delete this article so that Wikipedia is not blocked - this will not happen."

On the night of August 22 , the address of the article about Charas was changed . At the address indicated in the court ruling, they placed a page of resolution of ambiguity, placing references to articles on various objects called Charas, Charas or Charas, in particular about the grape variety, the Indian film, etc. The article on psychedelics was moved to another page, and only a link to other articles was given on the former page.

However, this did not satisfy the officials. On Monday, Roskomnadzor demanded that Internet providers block the Russian Wikipedia page with an article about Charas. "The actions to move this article on another URL, undertaken by the Administration of the Russian segment of the Internet Encyclopedia, did not limit users access to information recognized by the court prohibited," the RKN statement said.

At the same time, the RKN noted earlier that since the Wikipedia works according to the HTTPS protocol, the providers cannot block individual pages of the resource, and therefore they will be forced to close access to the entire encyclopedia.

On Monday evening, Wikipedia published detailed instructions for readers and authors , explaining how to work with the resource in case of blocking it.