Russian Duma proposal to create internet censorship

[Alina Israeli]

William,

You just said it and explained why the German type law is impossible  
in Russia:

On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:42 AM, William Gardella wrote:
>
> You're correct that Germany's plans for censorship of the Internet
> remain unimplemented; however, for print, broadcast, and cinema, there
> is already such censorship, supervised by the courts and the Committee
> for the Protection of the Constitution (the federal domestic
> intelligence organization which as you point out has so shamefully
> failed in its main duty of protecting Germany from anticonstitutional
> extremists).


Russia is a country where there is no independent court system, as we  
have seen in the recent years and months. There is a concept of  
телефонное право in Russia, and решения по  
звонку, i.e. total corruption where such a law will certainly be  
abused.


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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