Minus by minus gives plus in mathematics this is always the case, but in real life, rarely. The exception to the rule can be observed in Russia. Here the combination of pornography (which we abhor) and censorship (which we strongly reject) leads to more serious informational self-determination. Albeit unintentional.
At the beginning of the week of the state censorship authority Roskomnadzor has blocked another popular website with erotic clips brazzers. com. Meanwhile, in Russia closed access to almost 59 thousand web pages. Among the various online casinos and obviously extremist websites. But there are resources critical of the Kremlin, a Russian-language website of former world chess champion and Putin opponent Garry Kasparov (kasparov. EN).
When, in September, Roskomnadzor blocked in Russia the leader among the porn sites PornHub, portal owners exchanged with the censors barbs on Twitter: “Guys, if we give you a premium account, you will unlock PornHub in Russia?” — boldly they asked. Officials with some irritation replied: “Sorry, we’re not in the market and the demographics are not traded”.
Since the ban on PornHub growing popularity of anonymizers
Apparently, in the Russian government are convinced that if too much sexual energy will be wasted in the viewing of erotic films, this has a negative impact on the fertility rate. However, in this respect, the government is acting inconsistently: on the website “Vkontakte”, which is a Russian clone of Facebook, in the public domain are not only pirate copies of many blockbusters, but pornographic videos of all kinds, even the most disgusting.
The positive side effect of censorship in January was discussed at the meeting of the defenders of the free Internet at the Sakharov center in Moscow. Andrei Soldatov, an expert on secret services and supervision in sphere of mass communications, during the presentation of his new book, recalled the decadent mood after Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012.
Then activists puzzled over how to force the Russians to use the software through which you can anonymously navigate online and visit blocked pages. “But since then, as blocked PornHub, the number of users of anonymizers is growing rapidly. Roskomnadzor did the job for us.”
