[Grue3]

Disgusting, first they started blocking random sites for "promoting suicide" or "promoting drug use", and now they don't even try to mask the censorship.

As a Russian citizen, I'm also very interested what Internet Hero Edward Snowden thinks about this.

[sage_joch]

Edward Snowden is not currently in a country with press freedoms, and people have to pick their battles. Snowden has already picked some pretty huge battles. Besides, if you've been paying the slightest amount of attention you already know his feelings on Internet freedom.

[adobriyan]

> first they started blocking random sites for "promoting suicide" or "promoting drug use", and now they don't even try to mask the censorship.

we have good teachers and are learning (from west obviously)

[avmich]

Indeed it takes a good sense to learn good things from imperfect teachers. One has to see the forest behind the trees and understand what good US can teach to Russia - even though US is quite susceptible to similar ills itself.