Sunday, September 22, 2013

Facebook may be banned in Russia

Facebook has been entered in the register of banned sites in Russia and can be blocked if the Company will not eliminate the violations of the law nearest days.

On Monday (September 16) some users reported that ads for the sale of smoking mixtures appeared in Facebook. Russian Facebook explained the appearance on the pages of social network advertising of smoking blends as a technical glitch and they began removing the advertisements.


Register of banned sites in Russia started working from November 1, 2012 with the aim to block websites with materials containing child pornography, information on drugs and calls for suicide. The decision to include resources in the "black list" is taken by such government authorities as the Federal Drug Control Committee, the Rospotrebnadzor and theRoscomnadzor.

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