Facebook, Twitter and Google: the mechanics of disconnecting

Roskomnadzor started to block Russian servers Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

It was originally planned that they will be blocked in the second half of 2016, but deputany urgently changed his mind and adopted the amendments on which the time off is postponed to 1 January 2015. But Roscomnadzor hurry create conditions more quickly.

Technology off — dvuhhodovki. First to foreign services is presented clearly unenforceable the requirement to transfer all user data on the area under the control of the FSB. And then for failure to do so them off. Rather, they are cut off us.

By registering Roskomnadzor as organizer information dissemination, such site shall, within six months to keep "on the territory of the Russian Federation about the facts of reception, transmission, delivery and (or) processing of voice information, written text, images, sounds or other electronic messages of Internet users". For failure to fulfill this requirement face a fine: for legal entities — up to 500 thousand roubles, — explain the signalmen.

You may be feeling that the journalists of "Izvestia" missed an important nuance: whose tanniemola stored in the territory of the Russian Federation. Whether here it only of Russian citizens, Russian-speaking Internet users worldwide, or about individuals of any nationality who are at the time of data transmission in territory of Russia?

Actually, the journalists of "Izvestia" is to blame. Of course, they could ask the officer Roskomnadzor this interesting question, and maybe even asked it, the only answer they were not allowed to print. The harsh truth is that the answer to the 97-FZ does not prescribed. It made no attempt to limit the jurisdiction of the state Duma of the laws and legitimate interests of the FSB — not by the criterion of nationality or language or geography. If you read the 97-FZ, in the form in which it was written and adopted, there it is all about any reception and data transfer American and European, Japanese and canadian, Israeli and new Zealand, without any limits. And the definition of a blog there is also this from the bounty. Perhaps the quote, and you will not believe me:

The website owner and (or) site pages in the network "Internet" that host publicly available information and access to which during the day is more than three thousand users of a network "Internet" (hereinafter — the blogger), at placement and use of this information, including placing this information on the given website or website page other users of a network "the Internet", is obliged to ensure the observance of the legislation of the Russian Federation

Here you can see quite clearly that there are no restrictions. Neither the citizenship nor by language, nor by geography. There are three thousand unique visitors a day — you're in the list, and if you please to match. Even if your Indonesian language, and the target audience is on the island of Java. Either you admit jurisdiction over a flock of sheep, or we will block you. As stated in the legislation.

It is clear that to fulfill the law in the form in which it was adopted, no one is going. The problem initially was not intended so. Still 10 days before the law comes into force from Maxim Ksenzov, Roskomnadzor explained to everybody that his Department will not perform any of the provisions of this act, in addition to selective political censorship.

We did not and will not attempt to organize the universal census of all popular Russian-speaking Internet users. This unpromising occupation, and the law is not about that... the statutory register of bloggers, which Roskomnadzor will start from 1 August, is not designed to produce statistical estimates. we do not see special need in the preliminary estimate of the number of users who potentially fall within the operation of this act, — statistics formed in the course of law enforcement practice and is movable.

Mobility is perhaps the main quality of Russian law enforcement in the current season. On the one tomorrow will show a finger to the "mobility" and come. But the primary task is to block Russia's Facebook, Twitter and Google services. Council has set a deadline of January 1, but Roskomnadzor is hurrying to cope before.

Don't know, what is this rush, In any case, the issue is only about the technology of disconnection, which can be easily overcome by using proxies and VPN.

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