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Sharu said:

WorldBreakerHulk said:

How are the Russians in your community reacting to this?

"A new government decree requiring Russians to provide their passport details when logging on to public Wi-Fi networks had Internet users up in arms on Friday."

"The Wi-Fi connection provider would have to collect the user's full name and passport information, and would have to store the data for six months, along with details of how long the person was logged on, according to the decree."

http://news.yahoo.com/fury-russia-over-wi-fi-curbs-174634165.html

 

Once again, false piece of news. Some journalist didn't understand the new law, ant start making the hysteria on this. Simple - not true for usual users of public wi-fi nets.

Just an example of bad journalism, afaik it's going to be applied only to Rossvyaz's PKDs (that's how they call a Wi-Fi hotspot), that's a state-owned enterprise, they can do whatever. No connection to other serivce providers.

As for Internet censorship in general. Here it goes. This year "enemies of the Internet" are marked in pink, at least according to RWB :D