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© LIONEL BONAVENTURE/Getty Images The logo of US social network Twitter displayed on the screen of a smartphone.The Russian government has disrupted access to Twitter, accusing it of failing to remove banned content as the Kremlin grapples with the role social media is playing in protests against President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's media watchdog Roskomnadzor said Wednesday that the social media giant had ignored more than 28,000 requests since 2017 to take down illegal content.
These claims included posts with child pornography, information about drug abuse and calls for minors to commit suicide.
The watchdog said that Twitter had shown a 'demonstrative disregard of the requirements of the regulator..to remove calls to minors to commit mass suicide on March 3, 2021,' and added that there were over 3,000 illegal posts.
In a statement, Roskomnadzor said that if Twitter, 'continues to ignore the requirements of the law, restrictive measures will continue..up to blocking.'
It has slowed down Twitter content on all mobile devices and half of non-mobile devices in a move it said would mostly impact photo and video content.
Outage monitoring website Downdetector said on Wednesday afternoon that Twitter users in Russia 'could currently experience problems.' Newsweek has contacted Twitter for comment.
The move comes weeks after Russian authorities accused social media platforms like Twitter and TikTok of encouraging young people to take part in anti-government protests, spurred in part by the arrest of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, the now-jailed opponent of Putin. Adobe acrobat pro dc 2017 for mac.
Navalny's Anti Corruption Foundation (FBK) is expected to organize further protests in spring.
Mikhail Klimarev, the executive director of the Internet Protection Society in Russia, told The Moscow Times that the move by the Russian authorities against Twitter was 'the start of a new clampdown,' and that 'Facebook and Google are next.'
Meanwhile, Sarkis Darbinyan, an internet freedom advocate with the Roskomsvoboda group, said that Russian authorities had acted out of fear of street protests.
'It's 10 years since the Arab Spring this year.. they've understood the internet is a driving force,' Darbinyan told Reuters. 'Any desire to control the Russian internet is connected to the desire to control the information space.'
Also on Wednesday, the websites of the Kremlin, Roskomnadzor and the Russian government were briefly inaccessible, although Russia's main telephony company Rostelecom denied this was linked to the action taken against Twitter.
However, Russian cybersecurity expert Andrei Soldatov said the outages were linked to the Twitter slowdown, showing the limitations of Russian technical capabilities.
'What was meant to be partly a nationwide test of the Sovereign Runet infrastructure, partly a warning to global platforms, (and partly a soothing message to Putin getting emotional), failed on all fronts,' he tweeted.
Russia has not been able to impose the kind of internet restrictions seen in China. It tried to ban the Telegram messenger service in 2018, but publicly lifted the ban after it was technically unable to block the app.
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Daily Mail (UK) ^ | March 16, 2021 | Chris Pleasance
Posted on 03/16/2021 9:10:26 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Full Title: Putin vows to take down Twitter: Service will be blocked in Russia in 30 days if it does not delete 'banned content' related to porn, suicide and Alexis Navalny protests
Russia has threatened to block Twitter within 30 days unless the site acts to remove what the government refers to as 'banned content'.
Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of watchdog Roskomnadzor, said on Tuesday that the ban would come into effect unless Twitter removed the content, which he said includes child porn and information on child suicide and drugs.
But critics say the crackdown is actually an attempt to stop Putin's political opponents organising rallies, as they did in a number of cities earlier this year.
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A banner bans the banner.
Conclusion:
PUTIN IS WOKE!
Putin Twitter Official
Eventually, every government will threaten Twatter, then their stock will plummet.........
Putin Twitter Account
Meanwhile, Putin’s Russia has the highest Abortion Rate on the planet.
Hail Putin, hail this Glorious Leader!
Doesn’t Vladimir have access to any of those umbrellas tipped with plutonium pellets?
Captureontouch for mac. Seems a shame if Jack Dorsey was walking by on a rainy day..
I’m warming up to this Putin fella. Who would ever have thought a US President would be to the left of a Russian dictator?
I think it was polonium they used.
I'll bring the biscuits.
His Christianity schtick is a scam..Christians don't poison the leader of the Ukraine.
This Twitter News will undoubtedly snag more alleged conservatives into his web.
He's a deadly snake. Not buying any of his lies.
I’m rootin’ for Putin in this fight.
Putin is paying women to have more children
Now Twitter will be all for free speech.
Yup.
Russia is actually behind the far alt-left Woke movement both Anfita and the BLM receive plenty of money arms and plenty of propaganda from Communist Russia they’re pulling the strings and are playing all sides against each other.
Putin Twitter English
Ping
So Putin is implementing a Hyper-Socialist program to pay women to have babies, all while Russia has the highest Abortion Rate in the world.
Abortion and Socialism in Putin’s Russia.
“His Christianity schtick is a scam..Christians don’t poison the leader of the Ukraine.”
I think you nailed it.
Platinum, with a small laser drilled hole full of ricin.
Platinum is biocompatable, and didn’t cause inflammation which would have guided efforts to remove it, or perhaps aided in detection at autopsy.
We found it anyway, so I doubt they’ll play that trick again.
Go Putin!
If he manages to do it, all I can say is, “Спасибо большой!”
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