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Fish effect
Roskomnadzor, on the basis of a decision of the Ust-Labinsky court, which no one saw, took “interim measures” in the form of restrictions on access to the materials of the “Rybabaite”, but activists manage to break through the barrier.
Roskomnadzor ordered communication operators to limit access to the pages of the opposition website, Alexei Navalny, on which there is information from the investigation of the Corruption Foundation (FBK), which also received the name "Rybabage" on the network. The press service of Roskomnadzor clarified that the information that the court requires the court was not deleted from these pages. Also, the department is waiting for a decision from Google to delete YouTube video hosting materials from the FBK film. “Roskomnadzor hopes for a positive decision from Google,” the press service said. Links from the Navalny.com website, which should be limited by Oleg Deripaska, appeared in the register of prohibited sites, and since two separate pages are entered, the site uses HTTPS, the whole site turned out to be blocked, which many users, including Alexei Navalny himself.
Oddly enough, one of the most “obedient” was the American Instagram service (belongs to Facebook). Late at night, from February 14 to 15, the service administration was removed by two posts of the Nastya fish (Anastasia Vyukevich), which were entered in the register of prohibited information. In total, at the request of Oleg Deripaska, Ust-Labinsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory decided to add 14 fish posts on Instagram to the register, but most of them the model removed the model itself a few days ago.
The court ruling on the corresponding interim measures was taken less than a day after the appearance of scandalous materials on the Internet - in the evening of February 9, in relation to several sites at once. Among them - Instagram, which, by law, had three working days, that is, until the evening of February 14, to remove posts. Otherwise, access to these posts in Russia was blocked. Since not all providers have a technical opportunity to block individual Internet pages, some of the Runet users could be left without access to everything Instagram, i.e. The same thing that happens in relation to the site navalny.com.
During yesterday, users reported that when trying to go to Navalny’s website, “it is not possible to access the site.”
The owner of the Telegram channel “IT Criminal Cases of Russian Rossiyushka” Vladislav Zdolnikov said that the Navalny team launched a mirror of a blocked site with a funny name http://rybka.fuckrkn.org, as well as on willingness to make a surprise to specialists from Roskomnadzor.
The journalist of “Echo of Moscow” Alexander Poyshchev suggested that it is most likely to talk about cunning traffic redirections, as a result of which the site will open with providers who regularly block it:
“It will be interesting to see if Roskomnadzor will be able to really technologically be technologically, because it is some kind of breakthrough.
The Navalny website is still available through the application, it is also interesting here whether the RKN will require its exceptions from the stakes, and if so, how they will react. It is also interesting what will happen to YouTube, which demanded from Navalny to remove the video (this is normal, the RKN requirement referred to the decision, though very ridiculous, but still a court), but, having not received a reaction, it is not in a hurry to block it. ”
According to the journalist, permanent users of the Navalny website are already aware of ways to bypass the locks, so the rest were recommended to look at the plot of the Russian-24 program, where for residents of Ukraine they held a small VPN film, so that they had the opportunity to visit the Ukrainian Council of Ministers and Decree of President Poroshenko: Russian sites:
Activists also did not fail to remind the words of the deputy minister of communications Alexei Volina, who could lead some conditional “hit parade of hypocrisy”:
“If you are engaged in blocking a massive popular resource, then you discredit power, because you show that the decision of the authorities is unrealistic, it costs. You bring up legal nihilism in citizens and increase their computer literacy ...
... Therefore, this is a meaningless, discrediting another decision. Not the first and, apparently, not the last. But this is the favorite entertainment of the authorities - to shoot in the leg.
... Residents will instantly master anonymizers, VPN services and a colossal number of programs that allow you to bypass locks. ”
Shortly after the Navalny.com website announced by the Navalny Surprise team, I really started working as usual. The ally of Navalny and the founder of the Internet Protection Society (OSI) Leonid Volkov told reporters: “We studied well how the practical implementation of the blocking works, and came up with a couple of tricks.”
In his Telegram channel, Volkov also noted : “The site worked, of course. Here the locks have stopped working - about 85% of users in Runet. Our brilliant technical team plans to bring this figure to 95%. ”
“The decision of Roskomnadzor is absolutely unlawful,” Volkov believes , “since it affects our interests, but it was not even shown to us. As you know, the Ust-Labinsk District Court issued a private ruling on interim measures before the court session-to make these same blocks, but they do not show this definition and prevent us from challenging. It cannot be legal, only Roskomnadzor saw it, nevertheless, Roskomnadzor itself on its basis blocked a number of sites. What to do? Well, we are judged with Roskomnadzor, we continue to promote the means of bypassing locks, and our audience knows very well how to enter blocked sites. Now not 2012, but 2018. And of course, we are not going to delete anything. ”
According to activists from the Navalny team, the actions of Roskomnadzor indicate that the investigation fell into a really sufficiently sore point. “So far, it brings only an increase in interest in the site and in our activities,” Volkov also noted in an interview with journalists. - Of course, in the long run, the site blocking implies the loss of part of the audience, but this part will not be significant, because everyone has now learned to go around. Moreover, Roskomnadzor uses extremely ineffective locks. ”
The opinion on the inevitability of interest in the investigation published by the opposition against the backdrop of the fight against Rybabit was voiced by many Russian journalists and ordinary users:
Just the other day, the video “Yachts, oligarchs, girls: a hunter for men exposes a bribe taker” totaled 4.7 million views, and now he has already gained 5.37 million.
As a result, the authorities and the defendants of the investigation of Navalny with their clumsy actions aroused even greater interest in the scandalous publication not only in Russia, but also beyond its borders. For example, a fairly noticeable informational resonance arose in the Western press regarding the Russian “Rybbate”, hooking both small and large editions.
The founder of the “Zelecom” Mikhail Klimarev also spoke about the futility of the efforts of Roskomnadzor in attempts to block the Materials of Rybabait:
“I wrote a hundred times already because locks are not effective and useless. Especially against those who resist. Well, they blocked the main domain of Navalny. And Cho? This one immediately appears: http://rybka.fuckrkn.org/
Yesterday I was at the parent meeting, there the whole senior investigator of the Investigative Committee cried, how they could not block the drugstered magazines. Literally (I recorded and there are broadcasts in the FB): “The online stores with drugs are blocked, but for some reason nothing happens, new ones are opened”-(C) Vetluzhskaya Victoria Viktorovna, the investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Leninsky District of Yekaterinburg.
Uyutub, it seems, will not delete the video, but to block at all - the ICN of the gut is thin. ”
However, many Russians felt malfunctions in YouTube during yesterday. Russian -speaking visitors to the sitenoted that they open the video they need, but instead of video recording they see only a black screen on which nothing happens.
Russian -speaking users began to publish complaints about problems in the work of YouTube on different social networks yesterday. Everyone says that they do not work a video hosting player, both in the full version for a PC and on a mobile version. But in the corporate application for mobile devices, as well as in the case of a VPN connection, everything is reproduced without any problems. The journalist and blogger Alexander Plyushchev drew attention to this on Twitter.
“YouTube has problems. For some users in the Russian Federation, some videos are shown by a dead black rectangle. For example, I do not seem to do with @tanya_f morning video. At the same time, the VPN is shown perfectly. It is shown part of the Russian providers, ”he wrote.
Some users suggested that the cause of large-scale failures may be an attempt to block the site by Roskomnadzor due to the scandalous video about Oleg Deripaska. Earlier, the department notified YouTube and Instagram that they have time until the evening of February 14 to delete scandalous videos and photos about Deripaska and Nasta Fish. According to February 15, the materials were not removed.
“Roskomnadzor threatened to block YouTube if they did not remove a video from the investigation of Navalny about fish, Deripaska and Prikhodko. But there is a version that these are the problems of YouTube itself related to the new rules for monetizing the channels, ”said Poyshchev.
On the evening of February 15, another stream was released on the Navalny.Live channel, which watched 30 thousand people, but immediately after the end of the broadcast, he was blocked for copyright violations:
As it turned out later, the reason for this was an excerpt mounted in a stream from the film “Putin”, which the activists had to remove and reload the video without it:
The scandal with the removal of the Russian authorities and Oleg Deripaska from the network of materials about Rybabate, meanwhile, reached a new level. The representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on freedom of the media Arlem Dezir expressed concern in blocking in the Russian Federation access to the site Alexei Navalny.
“We are concerned about blocking the Navalny.com website by the Roskomnadzor regulator in Russia due to the investigation report. Protection of personal information cannot be used in order to prevent the coverage of issues of public interest, or justify the full blocking of the website, ”he wrote in his Twitter.
"Rybbage" added popularity not only to Internet resources of the FBK and Alexei Navalny. According to the press service of the Eksmo Publishing House, the book of the billionaire, or a clone for the oligarch, the author Anastasia Vyukevich (Nastya Pisces), ended the circulation due to a sharp increase in demand for the book since February 8.
“The dynamics of sales of the book of the author Nastya fish has changed. Until February 8, [the day of the materials of the investigation of Navalny and the FBK on the Internet] the book was sold very slowly, now the circulation is over. About 1.5 thousand copies were sold in total in a week, ”said Eksmo. The book was published in a circulation of 3 thousand copies, its cost on the publishing house is 249 rubles.
In addition, the publishing house also noted the growth of electronic sales of the fish book. “Sales have grown significantly, more than 100 times, now this book is one of the leaders of sales in electronic form, but the dynamics is falling,” the press service explained.
Nastya Rybka confirmed that the circulation of her book was sold. “Eksmo” suspended the release of the book because he was afraid of the lawsuit from Oleg Deripaska, ”she added. Later, Nastya Rybka explained that the “Eksmo” was considering “the possibility of printing”. “[Publisher] analyzes the dynamics of retail. Very often in such situations, the demand for such projects can both grow and fall. While watching the market, ”the fish told about her negotiations with Eksmo. The publishing house was confirmed by the Russian media.
A few days ago, the pirate distributions of this book appeared on the Internet, with which the Russian authorities are unlikely to be able to do anything (however, like copyright holders).
In a word, the acytic attention around the “Rybabaite” is gaining momentum in Russia, despite the desire of its individual defendants to hide information about this.
In the following series:
- Will YouTube be blocked in Russia or YouTube will block the Navalny roller?
- Will anyone ever see the text of the court decision on which state censorship was used to dozens of Russian media?
- Launch of court processes of appealing unlawful requirements for the removal of materials from individual publications.
- The trial of the fish.
And much more ...
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