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ForkLog 11 20.05.2022

Court overturns ruling blocking The Tor Project site in Russia and refers case for reconsideration

The appellate court overturned the Saratov District Court's decision under which the main site of The Tor Project was blocked.

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ForkLog 8 24.01.2022

Roskomsvoboda appeals Tor blockage in Russia

The Roskomsvoboda team, acting on behalf of the Tor Project, which runs the Tor network, appeals a block on access to it in Russia.

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ForkLog 8 24.08.2020

Moscow authorities could stream data from city CCTV cameras to the public.

Moscow authorities may stream information from the city’s surveillance cameras into the public domain and sell it, according to Kommersant, in one of the contracts for installing cameras.

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ForkLog 13 19.08.2020

RosKomSvoboda calls for a moratorium on Moscow’s facial-recognition system

RosKomSvoboda has filed or prepared a lawsuit against Moscow’s police and the Department of Information Technologies, seeking to impose a moratorium on facial-recognition technologies until adequate legal safeguards against abuse are in place, according to the RosKomSvoboda website.

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ForkLog 7 30.07.2020

DemHack winners to receive up to 1.5 million rubles for digital citizenship solutions

ForkLog has become the media partner of the DemHack hackathon, organized by the public organization RosKomSvoboda and the Teplitsa of Social Technologies project. Its participants will work on finding solutions for digital citizenship aimed at protecting rights and representing citizens’ interests in the digital environment.

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Krzysztof Shpak 642 18.03.2020

Tor and Telegram Under Scrutiny: Will Russia Kill Anonymous Internet?

Roskomnadzor is closely studying anonymous and decentralized networks that enable bypassing the blocks imposed by the department. The ultimate goal of this study is to restrict access to such networks at the legislative level.

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ForkLog 900 29.11.2016

Pornolab Creates a Mirror in EmerCoin’s Decentralized Domain Zone

Pornolab, one of the biggest adult torrent trackers in post-Soviet states, has created a mirror to bypass the ban of the main domain.

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ForkLog 196 26.10.2016

Roskomsvoboda to Challenge Bitcoin Sites Ban

The Center for Protection of Digital Rights has proceeded with bitcoininfo.ru and localbitcoins.com cases. The Center’s lawyers have filed appeals at the Leningrad Oblast Court challenging the rulings that violate substantive and procedural laws. The sites in questions had been banned in Russia this September. Timeweb.com, the hosting provider for bitcoininfo.ru, has blocked access to […]

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ForkLog 101 02.01.2016

A Brief History of Russian Internet Obscurantism in 2015

The year 2015 was marked as the year of expanding obscurantism and controversies around several internet-related issues in Russia. According to one of relatively new Russian laws, the state supervising agency Roskomnadzor has the right to restrict or prohibit access to any website at its own discretion and without any court rulings. The agency was […]

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ForkLog 68 19.12.2015

Russian Anti-Censorship NPO Proposes Users to Join Its Unbanning Efforts

Following the notorious court ruling as to the â€śeternal banâ€ť of several Russian websites, including extremely popular BitTorrent tracker Rutracker.org, RosKomSvoboda, The Center for Protection of Digital Rights, and some activists initiated a campaign titled â€śThe Battle of Runetâ€ť. The campaign provides for consolidation of efforts of those thinking the so-called â€śanti-piracy lawâ€ť violates their […]

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ForkLog 118 08.12.2015

Russian Users Challenge the Lifetime Ban of Local Torrent Tracker

According to Roskomsvoboda, Russian users have challenged the ruling by the Moscow court as to lifetime banning of the country’s most popular torrent tracker Rutracker.

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ForkLog 112 28.05.2015

Roskomnadzor Blocks RosKomSvoboda’s Site; Crowdfunding Announced

Special Read in Russian Following yesterday’s blocking of Bitnovosti, Roskomnadzor continues industriously censoring the internet. Today it was announced that public association RosKomSvoboda’s (acronym standing for Russian Committee for Freedom) website was blocked under the order of Anapa town court.

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