{"id":4517,"date":"2017-04-20T06:16:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:38:32","slug":"russia-drafts-bill-ban-vpns-proxies-force-search-engines-remove-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-drafts-bill-ban-vpns-proxies-force-search-engines-remove-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia drafts bill to ban VPNs and proxies; force search engines to remove search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u00a0will soon see a new bill before the Duma that aims to ban VPNs and proxies that do not comply with the Roskamnadzor, Russia\u2019s online censorship machine. Though the bill is still largely under wraps, the draft bill has been seen by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vedomosti.ru\/technology\/articles\/2017\/04\/19\/686399-zapretit-obhodit-blokirovki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vedomosti<\/a>\u00a0(link in Russian), a Russian news organization. This is the latest development in Russia\u2019s most recent actions against VPNs and proxies. Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Roskamnadzor has already been in talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-threatens-ban-vpns-proxies-dont-censor-whatever-government-wants\/\">VPNs and proxies<\/a> to find those that will acquiesce to Russian demands and block the things on Russia\u2019s internet blacklist.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have pegged the largest telecom organization, the Media Communications Union (MCU), as the originators of this bill. Though, both the MCU and Roskamnadzor have denied any direct knowledge of this pending legislation. VPNs that choose to stay in the country\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-threatens-ban-vpns-proxies-dont-censor-whatever-government-wants\/\">Private Internet Access has no servers in Russia<\/a> because of the heinous Big Brother law whose most recent victim is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russian-internet-censorship-grows-twitter-reportedly-agrees-move-user-data-servers-russia\/\">Twitter<\/a>) will soon be faced with a choice, if they haven\u2019t been working with Russian authorities already.<\/p>\n<h2>Search engines in Russia will also be enlisted in Russia\u2019s internet censorship rampage<\/h2>\n<p>Besides enlisting the help of hypocritical VPNs and proxies, the Roskamnadzor\u00a0also aims to force search engines to censor anything that makes the Roskamnadzor\u2019s blacklist. Not everyone feels that this bill is the best way to go about censoring the Internet. Yandex, Russia\u2019s largest homegrown search engine, commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEven if the reference to a [banned] resource does appear in search results, it does not mean that by clicking on it the user will get access, if it was already blocked by ISPs or in any other ways.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of search engines in the region, Google was recently fined by Russia\u2019s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) and told to open up the Android market to other search engines. The ruling and fine came as a result of a complaint lodged by Russian search engine Yandex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u00a0will soon see a new bill before the Duma that aims to ban VPNs and proxies that do not comply with the Roskamnadzor, Russia\u2019s online censorship machine. Though the bill is still largely under wraps, the draft bill has been seen by Vedomosti\u00a0(link in Russian), a Russian news organization. This is the latest development in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-drafts-bill-ban-vpns-proxies-force-search-engines-remove-search-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Russia drafts bill to ban VPNs and proxies; force search engines to remove search results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1945,1,1937],"tags":[260,285],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-news","category-vpn","tag-russia","tag-vpn-ban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia drafts bill to ban VPNs and proxies; 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