Russia considers scheme to remove "offensive" comments

Date: 
14 July 2011
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Russia's Communications Ministry is considering legislation to censor offensive comments left on online media websites. A current draft would give increased power to media regulators to demand for comments to be deleted. Blogs and social networking sites, however, would not be affected.

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Source: 
RIA Novosti

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