Intel shuts down Russian developer forums to comply with Russia's harshened censhorsip

[uhnope]

Source: Tech Portal

Another one bites the dust. Intel has pulled down all of its services and contribution to its Russian-language developer community post the complications caused due to the Russia’s overly harshened censorship.

Intel posted a notice on its community pages which stated-

In order to be compliant with the Russian Internet Bloggers Law the following changes will be implemented to Russian Intel® Developer Zone community as of January 1st 2015:
Blog post contributions will be disabled
Forum contributions will be disabled
All commenting will be turned off for russian content

Russia introduced the blogger law last year and further tightened its grip on web content, which obviously is not being much appreciated by the professionals. The law states that all blogs having 3,000 daily readers or more will have to follow many of the rules that exist in conventional mass media, such as tougher control on published information or the ban on use of explicit language.

Read more: http://thetechportal.in/2015/01/06/intel-shuts-russian-developer-forums-comply-russias-harshened-censhorsip/

[msanthrope]

1. I await the Snowden/Greenwald commentary on this. nt

[Adrahil]

3. AnotherPoster will be along any minute...

... to explain how this is the West's fault.

[msanthrope]

4. We should try to guess the RT headline "Great Glorious Leader Clears Internet for New Tractor

Factory!"

[freshwest]

5. Will it be a quantum physics project?

[joshcryer]

7. Being beholden to media deals and autocrats limits them.

Unfortunately they don't even have the ability to speak as much as any old anonymous internet poster.

[msongs]

2. so when will putin crack down on all the spam coming out of his precious democracy? nt

[Recursion]

6. I know, right?

I have most of Russia IP blocked on my web servers because I just got sick of it.