2020-04-06 - Роскомнадзор: "the Roscomnadzor is informing"

[RadicalCentrist]

I bet it's a prank by @Fancy Bear to show how much he cares

 

[mr.moon1488]

So this is what you do in Siberia if you ever wake up from your krokodil coma.

I mean, anyone would be a little uppity if this shit started to happen to them.

Spoiler: gross

 

[Safir]

Are all swastikas potentially banned in Russia or something?

Yes, and

They sometimes ban historical films, but often unban them, when their mistake is exposed.

"historical films" as in "anti-Nazi Soviet movies", and only because it causes uproars. Nominally, there's an exemption for showing a swastika in artworks and historical documents, but you can still get dinged for "rehabilitation of Nazism", "extremism", terrorism, high treason and such, even if the symbol itself is exempt.

assuming this letter is even real.

It is.
court decision
civic rights news bulletin

Dude got a criminal conviction and 160 hours of community service for being naughty online. Not for the picture itself, as it hadn't been banned when someone'd snitched on him and a cop accessed his page.
(Fun fact: it doesn't matter when you posted the banned content, only that you had it "accessible" (even only by yourself, e.g. as a "private" VK post) after it's been banned.)

Among all the offensive images posted here (e.g. literal selfcutting images, taints, etc.), they chose this to throw a bitch fit about?

I like how they didn't even state the exact reason for it to be requested for removal, it's just "prohibited for public distribution in the Russian federation" which is way too vague. They didn't even state it was offensive either.

In 2015, someone snitched on a guy, Kirill Velichko, and wanted to have him locked up for extremism. The same court decision (15.04.2015 file 2-1662/2015 ) that sentenced him to 160 hours of community service for being naughty online acknowledged they couldn't convict him for disseminating extremist content, as it hadn't yet been listed, and listed the content. Now Roskomnadzor has to monitor all the internets looking for that picture and threatening everyone who hosts it.

Wait, sorry, not Moscow, this scare letter says they're pissed because of a court decision in the "Republic of Buryatia" which is in the middle of fucking nowhere in Siberia above Mongolia.

The local court in Ulan-Ude doesn't know anything about Kiwifarms, they probably can't even read English. They convicted a local guy. But after they had the picture listed, its ban has to be enforced by the federal telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor. It's the feds who sent Null the nastygram.

 

[RapeMan]

I thought Russia was down with the hoholcaust.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

So technically if you removed this image would the complaint go away?

(I know you wouldn’t but just as a hypothetical)

 

[Doctor Placebo]

Wait, does this mean @Monika H. is rotting in a gulag right now? He's the one who started that thread, and I thought he was Russian.

Nothing like a little totalitarianism in the name of "antifascism" right? It's nice to know that the western woke warriors are following a time honored tradition.

I thought Russia was down with the hoholcaust.

Wrong genocide. You're think of of hohoholodomor.

 

[Trapitalism]

I thought the Russians were baste and redpilled.

 

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The wording is consistent with form letters from Roskomnadzor. Many examples are available online.. for verification, or copycating.

I am aware that the current Russian government does persist in engaging in certain forms of historical denialism, to promote Russian national pride through the perception of the second World War as a good war, but is this verified to actually come from the Russian state? The email body would not be beyond your Turkish friend.

 

[Dylan]

Demented bureaucrats.
By the way, people who make these laws are boomer tier literate about internet, they barely use it themselves, and it was at large designed to stop people saying things they don't like, for example how much money they earn and where their children live.

 

[Untrue and Dishonest]

I'm surprised at the amount of morons here thinking Russia is "based" in any way. They aren't, all they do is to just suck Putin's cock.

 

[Null]

It is.

To clarify concerns, it is real. I check emails very thoroughly after the fakes and omit any ones I'm even a little skeptical of. This email was sent from an authoritative Russian federal government email server and a Russian federal government IP address. There's no forging that.

 

[BlancoMailo]

Wrong genocide. You're think of of hohoholodomor.

It would make for a wonderfully passive aggressive bit of compliance if Null replaced the image with a Stalin-faced Santa saying "Ho-Ho-Holodomor" with starving Kulaks in the background and sent it back to show that the banned content had now been "fixed."

 

[The Last Stand]

Okay, whoever posted that image, give them an achievement rating.

Kiwis are banned in Russia now.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Just some RKN leech trying to justify his existence, doing his "job". Just routine stuff. Image of the swastika is like a gift for them, makes it easier.

 

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It would make for a wonderfully passive aggressive bit of compliance if Null replaced the image with a Stalin-faced Santa saying "Ho-Ho-Holodomor" with starving Kulaks in the background and sent it back to show that the banned content had now been "fixed."

Perhaps for Western neoconservative audiences. It sounds like the email is a genuine one. It is true that Russia is not an entirely free country, but it is mistaken to think that the anti-German sentiment in Russia is due to the same memes that are present in Western countries (even if those were originally invented primarily by Soviet propaganda). It is actually because of the meme that the USSR was the national expression of the Russian nation in those times. In that war, Germans killed Russians. They feel resentment as a result. Naturalment.

For maximum offence, better to replace the images in question with those of Russian Liberation Army troops making ready to rescue Russia from the foreign powers that held her under occupation.

 

[Null]

For maximum offence, better to replace the images in question with those of Russian Liberation Army troops making ready to rescue Russia from the foreign powers that held her under occupation.

They could hire you to edit books in Airstrip One.

"funny thread about rkn censoring stupid shit memes, better re-educate the plebs about how the nazis were actually helping russia"

 

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They could hire you to edit books in Airstrip One.

"funny thread about rkn censoring stupid shit memes, better re-educate the plebs about how the nazis were actually helping russia"

I simply suggest the way to cause the most grief to the initiators of the threat, by weaponizing historical fact. I agree there is no reason to get political about this- facts don't matter besides their ability to annoy. The Russian government will ban whatever they want to where they think that promotes the interests of the Russian people.

 

[Hitler]

I guess I know what my next avatar will be when they are re-enabled.

 

[RapeMan]

Wrong genocide. You're think of of hohoholodomor.

I was dabbing on Ukrainians, I guess I should have said khokholocaust

 

[Slav Power]

To be honest, Poland should be the one throwing a fit over this image.