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by Muromec 4219 days ago
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.
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Tombone5 4219 days ago
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?

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Muromec 4219 days ago
>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.

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Tombone5 4219 days ago
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

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Muromec 4219 days ago
>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.

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mlvljr 4219 days ago
Vimeo works fine though (as is youtube, or course) :)
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