Thread: Reddit Banned?

Originally Posted by RedFox

If a government does care what happens to it's people, it should deal with corrupt officials, drug dealers, gangsters, illegal immigration, discrimination, violations of human rights, public health issues and so on. Not with journalists, internet trolls, or just random internet users.

Roskomnadzor bans media for publishing reasons of suicides.
There are no reasons to commit suicide in happy Soviet Russia. Is the Big Brother's message clear enoght?

Well, business consultants would know a lot about the legal angle - especially consultants that are all over IT.
And one part of your first sentence does explain it - If a government does care about what happens to it's people, it should deal with drug dealers. That's exactly what Roscomnadzor did. They have the right to block sites without a court ruling and they used that to block the "magic mushroom growing guide" by blocking Reddit.
When Reddit complied with their demands, Reddit was restored.
Russia blocked & unblocked Reddit

Btw, Freedom of Speech can be tunnel vision. For example, do Bradley Manning, Snowden, and Assange have Freedom of Speech? Well, Snowden does but only because he's in Russia. If he was in the US he would be in prison.
So no, I won't always respond to the "Freedom of Speech" card when somebody pulls it.
Also, anyone that reads the Russian news knows that Russia is having a serious problem with drugs. So I wasn't very surprised when I read the first article about banning Reddit. Drugs have been causing a lot of deaths.

Originally Posted by UhOhXplode

They have the right to block sites without a court ruling and they used that to block the "magic mushroom growing guide" by blocking Reddit.

LOL!

There are LOTS AND LOTS graffiti with phone numbers of drug dealers in my city; the number of drug addicts is constanly growing; chinese synthetic drugs kill more and more people; and nobody cares.

Of course, fighting against an anonymous internet troll on Reddit is the best possible way to spend taxpayers' money.

They ban sites that publich "drug propaganda" instead of solving drug crimes in the real life. In Russia, we call it имитация бурной деятельности.

Originally Posted by RedFox

LOL!

There are LOTS AND LOTS graffiti with phone numbers of drug dealers in my city; the number of drug addicts is constanly growing; chinese synthetic drugs kill more and more people; and nobody cares.

Of course, fighting against an anonymous internet troll on Reddit is the best possible way to spend taxpayers' money.

They ban sites that publich "drug propaganda" instead of solving drug crimes in the real life. In Russia, we call it имитация бурной деятельности.

It's the same here. A lot of political speeches and no action. But sometimes even a government can't stop stupid.