Russian Facebook blocks event page for Putin opposition
Dangereux précédent ? Facebook Russie bloque une page qui annonce une manifestation pro-opposition le 15 janvier 2015. Cette manifestation a pour but le soutien d’Alexei Navalny, l’opposant le plus manifeste de Putine.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/21/russian-facebook-blocks-event-page-opposition-alexei-navalny
It’s a rather unpleasant and surprising behaviour by Russian Facebook. I thought they would at least demand a court order rather than rush to block pages as soon as crooks from the Roskomnadzor ask
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/facebook-blocks-russian-page-supporting-navalny-putins-biggest-critic/2014/12/20/a8c782b8-8877-11e4-abcf-5a3d7b3b20b8_story.html
Russian Internet regulators said Saturday that they had sent Facebook a “demand” that it block access to a page calling for a demonstration in support of Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Russia’s Internet regulator said it had asked Facebook to block the page because it called for an “unauthorized mass event.” Under a Russian law that went into effect in February, the regulator is empowered to block pages that call for protests that would “infringe the public order.”
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/world/europe/facebook-angers-russian-opposition-by-blocking-protest-page.html?_r=0
The Kremlin’s increasingly aggressive efforts to control social media, however, seem to have made Russia the immediate testing ground for Facebook’s most complicated questions about balancing user rights, government demands and the quest for profit for shareholders.
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“To a large degree, if Facebook wants to do business they need to follow local laws, even if those go against their policy in other regions,” said Brian Blau, an analyst for Gartner.
Facebook Government Requests Reports
▻https://govtrequests.facebook.com/about
We have strict processes in place to handle these government requests. Each and every request we receive is checked for legal sufficiency. We require officials to provide a detailed description of the legal and factual basis for their request, and we push back when we find legal deficiencies or overly broad or vague demands for information. Even where we determine that local law would compel disclosure, we frequently share only basic subscriber information.
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Requests are scrutinized to determine if the specified content does indeed violate local laws. If, after a thorough legal analysis, we determine content appears to violate local law, then we make it unavailable in the relevant country or territory.
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▻https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines
The facebook page that was/is blocked for Russian IPs and Russian nationalities :
▻https://www.facebook.com/events/417200101767938
