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Russian President Vladimir Putin has required all bloggers with at least 3,000 daily readers to register their real names and other personal information. The government may shut down the blogs of those who don't register. In fact, it has already shut down some blogs it deems extremist.

Comments

[Rev-Match]

I'm sure that the purpose is to detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/08.....a-database

[Swiss Servator, Bern baby Bern]

Pravda-y?

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

What is social pollution? Is it like when Jenny shows up at the party when she wasn't invited, but heard about it from Brittany who should have kept her stupid whore mouth shut?

[Libertarian]

In Russia, Dick Cavett watches YOU!

[Swiss Servator, Bern baby Bern]

RUSSIA HAS AFTERLIFE VIEWING TECHNOLOGY!!!!

[Libertarian]

I'm not dead yet!!

/Dick Cavett

[UnCivilServant]

Do you also feel happy?

[Swiss Servator, Bern baby Bern]

Not really.

/The ghost of Dick Cavett's career

[Rich]

The government says this is needed so it can remove inaccurate or defamatory information on the Internet.

Well, at least one can anonymously pass along inaccurate or defamatory information to *2999* daily readers.

[UnCivilServant]

Great Idea - RUBlog2000 - Splits up your traffic into slices of no more than 2000 readers between an arbitrary number of sister sites that post re-arranged versions of the original content.

[db]

Sounds like a porn site.

[UnCivilServant]

Isn't everything on the Russian internet? Even the fraud sites?

[db]

I don't see what the big deal is. Hey, even here in the U.S. we have a contingent saying the 1st Amendment only applies to "official" press. A natural out growth of the idea that the 2nd Amendment only applies to "official" state militia. Hell, we're just at the top of that slippery slop, might as well buy that big drum of lube off Amazon.

[sarcasmic]

How can you be free if you're not asking permission and obeying orders?

[UnCivilServant]

Easy - I'm a bureaucrat, I'm free to obstruct.

[KPres]

Hell, we're just at the top of that slippery slope

Two days ago:

http://reason.com/blog/2014/08.....a-database

Maybe Putin's just mocking Obama.

[Cdr Lytton]

There's another contingent that thinks anonymous political speech shouldn't have protection either.

Let's get rid of the Australian ballot while we're at it. Just the name alone should be reason to torpedo it. If you can't stand by your vote in public, you should shouldn't cast it.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

inaccurate or defamatory information

The thuggery sucks, but at least the honesty is bracing.

[userve32]

Sounds like a solid plan to me dude. Wow.

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