Russia threatens to block Wikipedia over cannabis page

Is that really necessary? As far as I know they prefer alcohol over there.

Russia also blocked Reddit for a day or two over a single post. Can't they filter out single webpages? Is this an HTTPS issue?

That is what the OP says: The agency explains that it can't just block the one page because of the way Wikipedia's security settings work: "In this case, insofar as Wikipedia has decided to function on the basis of https, which doesn't allow restricting to individual pages on its site, the entire website would be blocked."

Yup, this seems to be more of the same. And, yes, HTTPS prevents them from filtering out anything below the entire domain. I hadn't actually realised wikipedia was HTTPS-only until now; I'm unsure why we can't have the option of either protocol.

Because they want to prevent this situation exactly. You either have to ban Wikipedia in its entirety or let everything be uncensored and anonymous.

In theory there is nothing stopping them from making their own version of Wikipedia. By scraping all the content from the original. But that's a lot of work compared to adding a web page to a block list.

I hope Russia isnt done revolting.