Orphaned in US, SOPA Finds Home in Russia
▻http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/14/orphaned-in-us-sopa-finds-home-in-russia
Orphaned by its American parents, SOPA is on the cusp of finding a home in Russia, where it is called “Bill № 292521-6 [ru]: Amendments to the Russian Federation’s Laws Protecting Intellectual Property Rights on Information-Telecommunications Networks.” The media, understandably, is just calling it “the Russian SOPA.”
The lower house of Russia’s parliament, the Duma, approved [ru] a first draft of the legislation today, June 14, 2013, with a vote of 257 to 3 (plus one abstention). This move by lawmakers comes despite unanimous opposition from Russia’s Internet companies, which have rushed this week to publish detailed reports on the legislation’s potentially catastrophic damage to the RuNet.
Ça explique mieux encore l’argumentation à l’occasion d’un entretien de Putin qu’il a donné chez le Washington Post il y a 2 jours :
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