Roskomnadzor blocked the Shutterstock photo bank because of illustrations about suicide

photo bank in Russia Roskomnadzor has blocked the website of the Shutterstock , drew the advertising publication Sostav attention to .

As Sostav notes , the agency Fotodom , which represents the photo bank in Russia and the CIS countries, in a letter to users explained this with the department’s claims to “materials that do not meet existing requirements.”

According to the Roskomsvoboda project, which monitors changes in the registry of blocked sites, two short illustrative videos about suicide were subject to restrictions. Since Shutterstock uses the https network protocol , blocking two pages makes the entire site unavailable.

The videos are currently unavailable, but according to the description in the links, the hero of the first video is going to hang himself, and the hero of the second is going to shoot himself. Rospotrebnadzor demanded to block both on February 16.

In the summer of 2022, Russia blocked the Russian-language version of another large photo bank - Depositphotos, on the main page of which there is a selection of photographs of the consequences of the war in Ukraine. Depositphotos was founded in Kiev and bought out in 2021 by an American company.