According to GlobalVoicesOnline.org, the Russian government has blocked the Wayback Machine, which allows users to view archived webpages to see how domain sites looked like in the past.
According to the website Rublacklist.net (a censorship-monitoring project operated by the Russian Pirate Party), the entire domain and IP address for the Internet Archive was added on June 23, 2015, to Russia’s official registry of banned websites. The decision to ban the Internet Archive appears to be the work of Russia’s Attorney General, meaning that police determined that the website contains extremist content.
Rublacklist.net says police targeted the Internet Archive because of a saved webpage called “Solitary Jihad in Russia,” a short text that claims to offer information about the “theory and practice of partisan resistance.” At one point, the text states that Islamic sharia law “must be instituted all across the world.”
Like cache services offered by Google and Yandex, the Wayback Machine saves copies of websites that can later become useful resources, in the event that websites change, go offline, or delete their own content. The Internet Archive doesn’t maintain the world’s largest collection of archived websites (its 485 billion websites today pale in comparison to the 30 trillion Google had archived as long ago as 2013), but its Wayback Machine is unique for archiving several different versions of a website, saving different copies of the same page every few months or so.
This is the kind of action which should give the US Government pause to transfer ICANN oversight away from the US into the international community in which the most powerful nations are not in favor of a free and open Internet.
It doesn’t matter, the US is the international community.
What do you think the United Nations is?
Do you think that the United States is not the leader of the United Nations?
What do you think they mean by “leader of the free world”
All democratic nations under one rule.
Wait! You mean that “champion of freedom” and advocate for government transparency, Edward Snowden, is a hypocrite. So Russia is not the land of the free and open Internet? The Russia government can control the content that appears on the Internet? I am shocked Come home Eddie…face the justice you rightly deserve.
“The Russia government can control the content that appears on the Internet?” Well yes, they can control the content that appears on the Internet for Russians. Just as the EU instituted the ‘right to be forgotten’. Just as the UK tells ISPs which sites they have to block. And the Australian Government. And so on. As for the US, it doesn’t block, it just spies on its citizens Internet use. So why single out Russia? What is the point of this piece?
Craig sot he point of its piece is that Russia decides to block certain sites, usually on political ground of the Internet.
That was a news story yesterday/.
China has already blcoked plenty of sites including those as Google.
And now those that want to turn ICANN over to the world community, it becomes a political football.
Looking at the world now which countries will determine the future direction of the Internet?, The United States, The UK, Russia China, basically the UN security counsel members, many of which have unilaterally blocked access of its citizen to sites they don’t want people to see.
That is the point.
US spying on its citizens, has nothing to do with internet access.
You want a free and open internet then letting ICANN out of sight will be a disaster
Personally I don’t want to see those countries the most power