Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans

The Russian-language segment of Wikipedia, the world’s largest free on-line encyclopedia, suspended operation for 24 hours in protest against a bill proposing a unified digital blacklist of all websites containing banned content. The draft legislation, supported by all four party factions in the State Duma, has been widely criticized by civil rights activists and internet providers as an attempt to introduce censorship of the Russian segment of the internet (RuNet). “The Wikipedia community protests against censorship, which threatens open, free knowledge for mankind,” Wikipedia says in a statement on its Russian-language website.

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