The Government of Russia has decided to issue a ban on 11 pornographic websites, the largest of which is the Pornhub, as he says NewsRu.
The Pornhub, is a web portal with pornographic videos that, according to Alexa, is found on Top 100 of the most popular websites on the Internet, having created a name around herself through numerous smart marketing campaigns.
Now, the website Pornhub it looks like it will also gain free publicity, since the Russian government has banned viewing 10 and other similar pornographic websites.
The decision to ban sites such as Pornhub came from a court in the small town of Krylovskogo, near the city of Krasnodar, which has decided to ban the 242 article of the Russian Federal Penal Code.
This article covers the distribution of pornographic material and makes reference to illegal child pornography. But to be fair, the court's decision was somewhat unclear, referring to the entire article of the law, without further explanation.
A similar controversial decision to ban a Wikipedia page on cannabis has also been decided in a small town in southern Russia, and apparently Russia has a tendency to leave controversial decisions around censorship to be taken by small regional courts, and as far away from Moscow as possible to dispel any Kremlin involvement.
There is also the feeling that 11 only adult websites that are banned seem a bit like a symbolic decision, since everyone who has done some relevant surfing on the web knows there are many more 11 pornographic websites all over the web.
This raises the question of the interpretation of civil liberties in Russia when it comes to the Internet, since the country has a history of excessive bans on Reddit sites, Wikipedia, Wayback Machine, which then suspended a few days later.
For connoisseurs, this decision is once again the hand of Roskomnadzor (Federal Office for Telecoms, Information Technologies and Media), controlled by the Russian government, which seems to impose its policy strict censorship of Putin.
A similar ban on pornographic websites material it was previously studied by the UK government, but the EU Parliament immediately put an end to such silly ideas.
The same thing happened in India in mid-August when the ban on pornographic websites lasted only one day after the public outcry forced the country's government to take it back.
