[Tombone5]

This is a really strange phenomenon, and I feel like there is a bigger context in which this exchange between the citizens and the state should be viewed.

Looking at the first takedown, there is the conspicuously named account "russian-suicide", which contains a fork of a blog. A cursory look reveals one post just like the other suicide lists, but it notably references a poem about how teenagers should just kill themselves because they have only shit to expect from growing up. (http://mudacek.livejournal.com/720.html)

The poem is prefaced by an assertion the author expects Roscomnadzor will take it down soon. It seems likely that they have been taking down anything with the word suicide they've come across. My guess would be some programmer reads these poems and started putting these silly suicide instructions into repos as a form of protest, and the authorities are trying to kill the protest as well.

[Muromec]

If you speak about this one: https://github.com/russian-suicide/blog, which is the fork of my blog, I can explain what's going on.

>My guess would be some programmer got their blog shut down because it somewhere said something like "going to Ukraine is suicide" and the authorities used the censor suicide rule in their formal decision.

There is no such phrase. Subject of abuse was another file in repo that contains satiric poetry about Roskomnadzor that I copied from somewhere in the early 2013 to my blog. It sure contains suicide instructions as well as story about entry site being blocked because of single file.

In the early 2013 it looked funny, but now you can't really tell what is satire work and what is Russian government reality.

Another repos that were added in September/October 2014 (after first github ban) by different people contained list of methods to kill yourself.

[Tombone5]

So is it your livejournal that is linked to in the "suicide.rst" post?

What's up with the bans on suicide mentions? Is the topic growing because the public feels without hope as the poem seems to suggest, or is Roskomnadzor just tying to keep busy?

[Muromec]

>So is it your livejournal that is linked to in the "suicide.rst" post?

Livejournal blog linked there is a throwaway account of some unknown person, however I suspect Russian poet Leo Kaganov to be the author.

>or is Roskomnadzor just tying to keep busy?

this. just some bureaucrats being enthusiastic to assert their power.

[Tombone5]

Still, I'm surprised they bother with github being such a specialized website.

Do you know of other surprising examples of sites getting takedown request because of "immoral behaviour" (or whatever the name is)? Does the suicide list when hosted on bitbucket get taken down? On deviantart? Etc

[Muromec]

>Do you know of other surprising examples of sites getting takedown request because of "immoral behaviour" (or whatever the name is)?

They banned vimeo for ISIS video just day before github. They also banned youtube and vkontakte before.

>Still, I'm surprised they bother with github being such a specialized website.

They are just targeting all popular resources on purpose to make public case.

[mlvljr]

Vimeo works fine though (as is youtube, or course) :)

[jarin]

If they want to render this information ineffective, instead of playing whack-a-mole with takedowns they should start making Albert Camus required reading in high school.