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ForkLog 23 15.06.2021

World Wide Web source code to be sold as an NFT

Auction house Sotheby’s will auction 9,555 lines of source code underpinning the World Wide Web.

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ForkLog 22 13.05.2021

Site owners with a daily audience of more than 500 000 Russians to be required to open representative offices in Russia

Owners of large information resources with a daily audience in Russia of 500 00 people are to be required to open official representative offices in Russia. A bill containing this provision will soon be submitted to the State Duma, according to Alexander Khinshtein in his Telegram channel.

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ForkLog 22 12.05.2021

Volodin proposed discussing a ban on online anonymity after the Kazan shooting

The Speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, after the Kazan shooting, said there could be a discussion about banning online anonymity.

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ForkLog 7 09.04.2021

Media: Operators report outages caused by equipment for the ‘sovereign Runet’

Federal and regional operators report systemic outages caused by equipment with deep packet inspection (DPI) installed under the so-called sovereign Runet law.

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ForkLog 33 06.04.2021

Catch-22 for Russia’s social networks as authorities fight censorship with censorship measures

On February 1, amendments to Russia’s laws regulating the spread of information on social networks took effect. They require owners of such networks to monitor user content and effectively engage in censorship. For ForkLog, details about the new Russian realities were provided by Mikhail Tretyak, a partner at the Digital Rights Center, and lawyer Nikita Istomin.

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ForkLog 6 24.02.2021

Putin signs into law penalties for violating the sovereign Runet law

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law penalties for violations of the requirements to ensure a stable Runet.

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ForkLog 25 02.02.2021

Experts explain how Russia’s social-media self-censorship law will work

From 1 February, a law in Russia requires social networks to identify and block illegal content.

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ForkLog 17 01.02.2021

Dmitry Medvedev says Russia could be cut off from the global Internet

Russia could be disconnected from the global network, but authorities have a plan for this scenario, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said, according to RIA Novosti.

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ForkLog 14 24.12.2020

Fines for violations of the sovereign Runet law approved in first reading

On 24 December, the Russian State Duma, in the first reading, approved the bill establishing penalties for non-compliance with the so-called sovereign Runet isolation law.

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ForkLog 38 24.11.2020

Russia proposes fines for violations of the sovereign Runet law

The Russian State Duma introduced a bill on fines for telecom operators that did not install equipment to filter traffic under the so-called sovereign Runet law.

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ForkLog 77 19.11.2020

From hackers and cypherpunks to online freedom advocates — five software manifests of the Internet

According to a recent report by the rights advocacy organisation Freedom House, the coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected global freedom on the Internet. For ten years running, users have faced a broad erosion of their rights, and this trend is contributing to a crisis of democracy worldwide.

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ForkLog 24 29.10.2020

Putin: Russia will create its own framework to regulate the Internet

Russia will not follow foreign schemes for regulating the Internet and protecting personal data, but will create its own, President Vladimir Putin said at the 'Russia Is Calling!' forum.

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