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>"Russia has ordered companies to delete posts promoting drug abuse and dangerous pastimes, information about homemade weapons and explosives, as well as ones by groups it designates as extremist or terrorist."

Personally I am against of this kind of regulation but frankly I do not see anything outrageous. Assuming they're not marking legitimate discussions as extremists.

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Basically this is exactly ehat they do. FBK (Anti-Corruption Fund) is declared ”extremist organization” in Russia for it discloses corruption among Russian gov-t and top administration. And Google is guilty of not removing information from/about FBK.

Well that sucks of course.

The groups that designates as extremist or terrorist include FBK and Projekt.media who exposing corruption and war crimes of Russia rulers and their oligarch walkets.

So something like Assange.

Yes, except US government does not try to order Google to delist Wikileaks. And has not tried to poison the man. AFAIK.

Hillary Clinton inquired about murdering him with a drone. I'm sure many others were thinking it or saying it. And America has had other people (including its own citizens) executed outside the judicial system.

It prefers drones. Or ruins whole nations killing a scores in a process. I wonder what the victims would tell giving a chance.

Nothing like Assange. All FBK sources are open databases and registries. The corruption in Russia is that obvious.

> Assuming they're not marking legitimate discussions as extremists.

Which they do. They're fining Github (threatening to block it) for not removing a repo with "candidates without ties to the ruling party" during election. The justification is the repo was created by FBK Anti-Corruption Foundation which was declared extremist for "undermining the basis of the constitutional order". Nobody would admit it here but something equally ugly is going on with J6 stuff.

>"They're fining Github (threatening to block it) for not removing a repo with "candidates without ties to the ruling party" during election"

Not a good example. US had Github to delist repos for political reasons as well and have no doubt what would've happened to Github had it chosen not to comply.

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