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Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-content-for-you! dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law that will enable pirate mirror, proxy and other derivative sites to be blocked quickly by ISPs. Sites will be approved for blocking by the government and the local telecoms watchdog, and ISPs will be given 24 hours to block all access. Search engines will also be compelled to remove all variants from results.

Source: TorrentFreak

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:01AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:01AM (#535018)

    Didn't know Russia needed a law to do that.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Fluffeh on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:48AM

    by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:48AM (#535030) Journal

    It probably doesn't. The law makes it MANDATORY however.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:11AM (#535100)

    Perhaps because you are an idiot?