Paul Goble
Staunton,
February 6 – The Russian powers that be not only are cracking down on the
Internet at home but, in both admission of its international reach and an
effort to affect it abroad as well, they were responsible for 75 percent of the
requests to remove content from Google -- three times as many as all other countries
combined.
More than 11,000 of the 19,192 Russian demands that
Google remove content involved “goods and services which fall under special
laws” of the Russian Federation, the Transparency Report says (https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by-country/
and rbc.ru/technology_and_media/05/02/2019/5c5959789a79475f3d83d2bf?from=newsfeed).
The number of such
Russian demands increased by 36 percent compared to a year earlier. Most
experts connect this increase with new Russian laws on anonymizers, but Russian
officials are seeking to explain it away by saying that the figures now reflect
only that Russia like other countries was beginning from a low base because the
technology is new.
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