Intel shuts down Russian developer forums to comply with Russia's harshened censhorsip
Source: Tech Portal
Another one bites the dust. Intel has pulled down all of its services and contribution to its Russian-language developer community post the complications caused due to the Russias overly harshened censorship.
Intel posted a notice on its community pages which stated-
In order to be compliant with the Russian Internet Bloggers Law the following changes will be implemented to Russian Intel® Developer Zone community as of January 1st 2015:
Blog post contributions will be disabled
Forum contributions will be disabled
All commenting will be turned off for russian content
Russia introduced the blogger law last year and further tightened its grip on web content, which obviously is not being much appreciated by the professionals. The law states that all blogs having 3,000 daily readers or more will have to follow many of the rules that exist in conventional mass media, such as tougher control on published information or the ban on use of explicit language.
Read more: http://thetechportal.in/2015/01/06/intel-shuts-russian-developer-forums-comply-russias-harshened-censhorsip/
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)... to explain how this is the West's fault.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Factory!"
freshwest
(53,661 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Unfortunately they don't even have the ability to speak as much as any old anonymous internet poster.
msongs
(67,420 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I have most of Russia IP blocked on my web servers because I just got sick of it.