Russia is the latest country to enact laws that allows it to censor the Internet. The Russian version of Wikiepedia protested the bill by blacking out its website earlier, unfortunately, that didn’t stop the legislation from going into effect. Internet censorship has become all the rage in recent years with governments all over the world falling over each other trying to find new ways of blocking “undesirable” content. Russia is simply the latest example of this censorship. Yesterday, the Russian version of Wikipedia blacked out its website in protest of the censorship legislation .

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Russia Passes Internet Censorship Laws