By Loek Essers, ComputerWorld
The Russian legislature’s lower house on Wednesday adopted a bill that, according to tech companies in the country, could lead to Internet censorship. The bill, which includes amendments to several current laws, still needs to be signed and in the meanwhile Russian tech companies continue to protest the legislation , trying to influence the political process before the bill is formally adopted by the upper house. The bill passed by Russia’s lower house, the State Duma, aims to make it easier to block sites that host child pornography, promote drugs or provide instructions about how to commit suicide. But the Russian IT industry sees a basis for Internet censorship because it is unclear how the blocking procedure will work.
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