Google started deleting 'Blacklist' publication site created by Russian Federal Communications Commission from search results

by Renaud Torres

In Russia, the Federal Communications Bureau creates a "blacklist" of the website and allows the ISP to take steps to prevent users from viewing the site. The Federal Communications Agency likewise asked Google to take measures to prevent sites in the list from appearing in the search results, and Google had forgotten this long, but finally accepting this request, I found that I started deleting.

Google начал удалять из поиска запрещенные в России сайты - ВЕДОМОСТИ
https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2019/02/06/793499-google

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https://ria.ru/20190207/1550512397.html

This is what Google's employees revealed to Russian news site ВЕДОМОСТИ (Vedomosti). It was in November 2017 that the search engine was asked to remove the blacklisted site, Google did not filter for long, and repeatedly filed complaints from the Federal Communication Bureau, but "Google It seems that it was finally pushed to the pressure of blocking ".

The sites listed on the black list include elements such as radicalism, suicide recommendation, pornography promoting drugs, unauthorized gambling. It seems that the site itself is not judging in terms of whether it is a malicious phishing site etc. In 2015, Wikipedia whose description about "marijuana" was regarded as a problem was added to the list and it became impossible to browse You may.

In the form of receiving reports, Vadim Ampelonsky, a spokesperson for the Russian Federal Communications Commission, commented to the news site · РИА Новости (RIA Novosti) "We have started a constructive dialogue with Google".